The Hindu : ECIL forms consortium to address smart cards needs

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Thursday, Jun 19, 2003

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ECIL forms consortium to address smart cards needs

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD JUNE 18. Electronics Corporation of India (ECIL) has announced a strategic alliance with the Society of Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS) for smart card applica- tions.

The tie-up completes the final step in ECIL's efforts to form a consortium called `NASCENT' (National Smart Card Consortium of Enterprises) that will address all smart card require- ments. The ECIL led consortium is set to be launched in July.

An ECIL release issued here on Wednesday, said the MoU with SETS was signed by Wg. Cdr. (retd.) K. S. Chandrasekhar, Director, Technical, ECIL, and Dr. Vijayaraghavan, Executive Director, SETS. It said

SETS would integrate its security related software and also ensure the protection, surveillance, monitoring and certification of information security for ECIL's smart card applications.

The constituents of NASCENT are ECIL, SITAR and SETS. Earlier, ECIL had tied up with Society for Integrated Circuit Technology and Applied Research (SITAR) for their application software specific integrated circuit (ASICs) requirements.

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