{"id":40626,"date":"2013-06-25T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=40626"},"modified":"2015-01-23T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:23:03","slug":"new-sa-id-cards-go-high-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/40626\/new-sa-id-cards-go-high-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"New SA ID cards go high-tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gemalto, a Netherlands-based digital security company, recently announced in a press statement that it will be the company supplying the South African Government Printing Works (GPW) with its Sealys eID proximity cards for our national ID card roll-out.<\/p>\n

\u201cGPW selected the high-end Sealys document fitted with the contactless feature, ensuring added levels of convenience with unrivalled security for citizens,\u201d Gemalto said.<\/p>\n

Pierre-Luc Arnaud, marketing director for government programmes in Africa at Gemalto, explained that the eID cards coming to South Africa are compliant with the ISO\/EIC 14443 contactless standard.<\/p>\n

This same standard is used for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa contactless banking cards or electronic passports, Arnaud said. It also features in Near Field Communications (NFC) technology.<\/p>\n

To comply with top-end security and privacy considerations, Arnaud said that South Africa\u2019s eID cards will be configured to operate in very close proximity to a reader (less than 2\u20134 inches).<\/p>\n

\"Pierre<\/a>

Pierre Luc Arnaud Gemalto<\/p><\/div>\n

SA eID data is encrypted<\/h3>\n

Asked what type of contactless reader would be needed to make use of the proximity card feature of our new eID, Arnaud said that any reader compatible with the international standard could be used.<\/p>\n

He added that the data on the card is protected with strong encryption and public key infrastructure (PKI) so that \u201conly the rightful authorities or organisations can have access to the information stored on the card.\u201d<\/p>\n

This characteristic is also very important to respect the privacy of the citizen, Arnaud said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to its microprocessor and embedded software, the eID card is able to serve three distinct functions: identification, authentication and signature, using cryptography,\u201d Arnaud said.<\/p>\n

According to the Gemalto website, their Sealy\u2019s eID cards implement all the major security algorithms.<\/p>\n

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South Africa\u2019s new electronic identity documents will include near-field communications (NFC)-like technology, according to manufacturers, Gemalto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":38510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6145,26,2524,6144],"class_list":["post-40626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-gemalto","tag-headline","tag-home-affairs","tag-id-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78113,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40626\/revisions\/78113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}