The Calypso Letter #2
The Calypso Letter #2
April 30th 2009 If this letter was forwarded to you and if you want to receive next issues please register
[Portugal]
The card issued by Banco Santander at University of Porto is the first one to include Calypso applet, for more than 35,000 students, teachers, researchers and staff.
[Technology]
Nice Cote d’Azur Airport, Air France, Amadeus and IER partner to pilot a new mobile boarding pass.
[Industry]
ATMEL signs a license for Innovatron Contactless Technology.
21 countries, more than 80 cities
More than 39 million contactless cards
300,000 terminals in service
The lastest evolution of Javacard devices in term of prices and performances make them real solutions for ticketing systems.
Will the availability of Javacard devices favor the development of eticketing.
We received a lot of encouraging messages after the first issue of the Calypso Letter. It was sent to around 1,500 email address in the world and during the last three months many new visitors have registered on our website for receiving the letter and we thank them for their interest.
We are very pleased to interview Vivente Prior in this issue, because his successful story with Banco Santander makes two important demonstrations: first there is a strong synergy between Transport and University as soon as the business model is optimized, and secondly Java cards, coming from the market of the mobiles with a good level of price and performance, are already efficient solutions for multiservices projects. We are convinced that this fact will modify significantly the business model of the ticketing systems by lowering the part of the cost of the supports and speed up their development. Do not hesitate to comment this prediction on our forum.
Vicente Prior is the Smart Card Director of the Santander Universities Global division. He explains why the universities are in the core of the strategy of the bank and how they have distributed around 3.7 million university identification cards operational in more than 200 universities of 11 countries. Vicente says that the transport is a key application for students and as they decided to use Javacard they are very satisfied with the availability of the Calypso applet.
One of the main characteristics of Calypso is the highest level of security based on a clear separation of the component's and the software security which allows the choice of the best components, able to answer to banking requirements, on the one hand and a sotware managed by Calypso on the other hand. Thus the security of Calypso device is the addition of two independents levels of security giving assurance to make the best of them.
Calypso specifications for product remote loading have been aproved by the CNA working group and are available on the website of the association.
The document details standard interface specifications between a client communicating with a user and with a Calypso application in a portable object and a remote facility (such as a server) performing security mechanisms
The interface based on XML file exchange enables product-related services and/or functions within the Calypso application.
The specifications are generic, and should be used for any remote secure services without any applicative context restrictions.
They are available on the website http://www.calypsotechnology.net/ after registration.
Club Conference in Riga: May 14-16
CNA Annual General Meeting in Belgium: May 25
Transportation Security Forum-Paris: May 28-29
UITP Vienna 2009: June 8-10
Club Conference in Casablanca: June 26
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