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AUSTIN, TEXAS --(BUSINESS WIRE) --April 24, 2003--Giesecke & Devrient and VeriSign, Inc. have joined Alcatel, Aspects Software Ltd, Atmel, Dai Nippon Printing, ENST, Gemplus, Infineon Technologies AG, INRIA, Jurgensen Consulting, Koolspan, Oberthur Card Systems, Raak Technologies, Schlumberger, Texas Instruments, Transat, Trusted Logic, Ucopia, and Visa as members of the WLAN Smart Card Consortium.
At its 2nd Plenary Meeting, April 8-10, in Austin, Texas, the WLAN Smart Card Consortium refined its Mission, Objectives, and Technical direction.
The mission of the WLAN Smart Card Consortium is to define and promote smart card related specifications for WLAN across all market segments, including enterprise, public WLAN, and home networks.
The objectives are to produce specifications for industry adoption of smart cards for WLAN in regards to security, ease of use, and credit/credential management. The WLAN Smart Card Consortium will produce submissions based on specifications for the appropriate standards bodies and promote general market adoption and credibility for the utilization of smart cards in WLAN networks.
The WLAN Smart Card Consortium is working on an architectural model and a reference model for smart card based WLAN protocols. The goal is to publish interface specifications by year-end.
"The WLAN Smart Card Consortium now has a strong foundation to realize the worldwide potential of WLAN using smart cards for security, roaming, and a full set of personalized services," says Bertrand du Castel, Pro Tempore President of the WLAN Smart Card Consortium.
"The WLAN Smart Card Consortium is ready to propose very rapidly a set of market descriptions and technical specifications that can form the secure basis of worldwide WLAN access," said Jim Rosa, Pro Tempore Chairman of the Business Committee.
John O'Malley, Vice President of Telecommunications for Giesecke & Devrient's North American market said, "We are pleased to join the WLAN Smart Card Consortium. We look forward to helping define the requirements to realize interoperability and the full potential of smart card security and services in the WLAN market."
The WLAN Smart Card Consortium is open to new members. The next Plenary Meeting will be June 24-26 in Washington, DC, hosted by Giesecke & Devrient. For more information on how to become a member of the WLAN Smart Card Consortium, visit http://WLANSmartCard.org or contact: Bertrand du Castel (Pro Tempore President, ducastel@slb.com).
About Giesecke and Devrient
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology leader in the supply of smart cards, systems and solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment transactions, transportation, health, ID, loyalty and multimedia applications as well as Internet security (PKI). G&D is also a leading provider of banknotes and securities as well as currency processing equipment. The Giesecke & Devrient Group, headquartered in Munich, Germany, operates subsidiaries and joint ventures all over the world. G&D employs around 6,500 people world-wide and generates an annual revenue in excess of 1 Billion U.S. dollars. For more information, visit www.gdai.com.
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