Infineon Technologies Receives BSI Certification

Infineon Technologies announced that its SLE 78 family of security controllers received security certification for use in electronic ID documents and chip card applications. The Germany Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) certified the high standard of security achieved by Infineon.

“With our revolutionary ‘Integrity Guard’ security technology and the SLE 78 family, Infineon as an innovation driver is ushering in a new era in hardware-based security. For the first time in the more than 25-year history of chip cards, data is now processed on a CPU itself in encrypted form,” said Dr. Helmut Gassel, President - Chip Card & Security Division, Infineon Technologies AG. “Integrity Guard represents a huge leap forward compared to conventional security strategies that lack capabilities like end-to-end encryption of the data path, continuous monitoring, and cross-checking between two CPUs. Our new generation of digital security chips offers all of this.”

Designed specifically to deliver exceptionally long-lasting security, the SLE 78 family incorporates a set of state-of-the-art security functions and mechanisms, making these security controllers suitable for applications in which stored data needs an especially high level of protection. Such applications include payment cards and security-sensitive government projects

The certified SLE 78CLXxxxP product group, which has contactless and contact-based interfaces and hardware accelerators for advanced cryptographic operations, builds on the Integrity Guard security technology.