NXP Semiconductors, a semiconductor company founded by Philips,
announced that it will launch its microcontroller smart card IC Mifare
Plus at CarteS 2008, November 4-6 in Paris, France.
According to the company, Mifare Plus is the latest addition to NXP's
Mifare family of chips, a technology for contactless smart card ICs
used in transport networks and access management worldwide.
At CarteS, NXP will demonstrate multiple levels of enhanced security
available to customers with Mifare Plus, including 128-bit Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES) and the easy migration path from existing
Mifare Classic implementations. The chip complements NXP's range of
contactless microcontroller ICs, such as Mifare DESFire and SmartMX,
which are already providing levels of performance and security in the
automatic fare collection, access management, eGovernment and banking
markets, the company said.
Jonathan Collins from ABI Research points out that "NXP's Mifare
technology has helped push contactless smart cards into transport
ticketing, payment and access management. Mifare Plus presents a ready
path for existing Mifare contactless transportation schemes to migrate
to a new level of security and raises the security for new deployments
and applications."
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