This year Oberthur Technologies is on track to deliver more than two million smart cards to the U.S. government in 2011, making it the leading supplier of FIPS 201-compliant Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for the fifth year running.

Oberthur is a top supplier of smart credentials to the U.S. Federal government, with PIV-based products on the General Services Administration Approved Products List that comply with NIST certifications, including SP 800-73-3 and FIPS 201-2.

As Oberthur upgraded its products to comply with the new FIPS 201-2 standard, its product ranges included compliant functionality based on keys technologies such as On-Card Fingerprint Verification, AES-based secure messaging, Elliptic Curve Cryptographic algorithms, fast data access mechanism and Key history so that users can store up to 20 retired certificates and keys.

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