about Cartes 2010

7/8/9 December 2010 at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre

CARTES & Identification’s strength lies in its global leadership and the combination of the largest exhibition in the sector, an international congress with very high value-added and the Sesames Awards, rewarding innovations which are the most globally recognized by the profession.

charismathics announcement

with iEnigma® charismathics® re-invent the smart card at Cartes 2010

charismathics, the world leader in PKI middleware, announced iEnigma for Windows Mobile, a software application for smart phones. With iEnigma, the user turns his smart phone into a smart card. There is no need for additional hardware, the application completely replaces formerly required hardware and keeps your digital identity securely within the smart phone. Upgradable to regular PKI smart cards, iEnigma is compliant to all existing identity management schemes and does not require any change to processes or user habits. According to charismathics, the product “is very likely to change the way we all use computers in the future”. The product will soon support Blackberry, Android and Apple as well. iEnigma is also available as authentication engine for third party applications and services so that banks and other service providers are able to use it in combination with their services.

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charismathics interview at Cartes 2010 - Paris

charismathics is the only company that purely concentrates on the computer client and looks for partners for any of the server related features. We focus on the product that the user has in front of him and we are trying to do everything to make this convenient, simple and easy to use regardless of the computer platform. The larger the enterprise is and the more important it is to save money on all the impacts of an identity management system. Our software is exactly targeting this aspect and that's why we think we have been recently successful in a big aerospace and defense company deal. The new product that we announced in 2009 - iEnigma® - has now been released for Windows Mobile. It will soon be followed by the versions for BlackBerry and Android. The idea of this product is to completely virtualize a physical smart card and a smart card reader and put all that functionality into your smart phone where you actually have a much better access to what you want to do. Moreover the smart phone is always with you, you are less likely to lose it. There's a lot of cost saving on the hardware side because you don't have to buy a smart card and a smart card reader and iEnigma is also targeting the IT infrastructures that are getting more and more wild. The 100% Microsoft infrastucture is something you don't have anymore in the market so we have to address the issues that are combined with it. That being said iEnigma is not really our core product but is extending the core product by a very large extent. We have our smart security interface© that is the product we have actually sold to that aerospace company. Here the advantage is that we are completely independent of of the computer platform, the smart card in use and the applications running. With this 3-dimensional independence we have a very wide reach in the market. At Cartes 2010 we have had the largest interest on the smart phone application. We certainly believe that this is a big step for us and it's probably going to be a de facto standard in the market because we don't do anything proprietary, we do something that any of the big companies can use as well. As a matter of fact we are shifting from being an independent player into a company that is even addressing other companies that used to feel we were their competition. With this product we're getting interest from the whole industry and not just from a sector. I believe that this is going to be our success factor in the upcoming years. The important part of 2010 for us is to get all the success with partners that we are successfully handling such as IBM, Wibu, Oracle. We are really trying to come up with solutions that help their applications making our solutions more successful in conjunction with customers' demand .

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charismathics booth