Passport test suite from GALITT selected by ICTK
16 July, 2007
category: Contactless, Government
The ICAO e-Passport test tool from GALITT was selected by Integrated Circuit Technology Korea (ICTK) for evaluating compliant products for passport use in the Asia Pacific region. According to the company, “this Test Suite simulates a passport reader device and thoroughly covers all Test Cases defined by ICAO.”
KaNest®-ICC ICAO LDS e-Passport Test Suite selected by ICT Korea co., Ltd.
Integrated Circuit Technology Korea (ICTK) has selected the ICAO LDS e-Passport Test Suite developed by GALITT, for testing electronic Passports compliance against the official ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) Test Plan (Tests For Application Protocol and Logical Data Structure, Version: 1.0 of Dec 18, 2006).
Gerard de MOURA, Managing Director of GALITT, stated: “We are proud of seeing ICTK selecting our implementation of the official ICAO Test Plan, thus recognizing the level of efficiency and of quality that we are bringing to the industry to face the continuing challenge of e-Government project deployment throughout the world, and specifically in the Asia Pacific region.”
This Test Suite simulates a passport reader device and thoroughly covers all Test Cases defined by ICAO in the pre-cited Test Plan. It is based on the improved KaNest®-ICC engine, thus providing the tester with the benefits of both the simple and user friendly “Tester View”, as well as the advanced and powerful “Engineer View”. KaNest®-ICC also allows this Test Suite to be used with any PC/SC contactless card reader. Besides, note that an optional optical reader can also be interfaced with KaNest®-ICC for easing the MRZ reading phase. Using the KaNest®-ICC Test Suite, ICTK intends to improve the efficiency of its evaluation process.
About GALITT (www.galitt.com) – KaSYS has merged with COGESYS and CARD.dev to create GALITT, thus gathering more than 20 years of experience in mastering e-transactions. Company skills include consulting (design, specifications, technical expertise, organization), professional and testing services related to card and payment technologies, training, system engineering (programming, maintenance, acceptance), test tools (KaNest®, KaNest®-ICC, VISUCARD®) and value-added software (VISUBANK®, private labels, …).
With its high level of expertise in card systems and secure electronic transactions, GALITT is the recognized leader in France in all its business’s, and the worldwide leader in providing test tools. The formation of GALITT is leveraging internal synergies bringing to the industry integrated added-value services.
About ICTK (www.ictk.co.kr) – As an accredited lab, ICTK has experienced IC system experts to provide professional testing services. With accumulated knowledge and experience in certification, ICTK delivers the pride of customers’ product through various kinds of payment system testing such as EMV Debugging and Type Approval test for terminal, Visa contact and contactless approval test for card as well as IrFM. ICTK is now ready to help e-Passport manufacturers to check compliance of their products against the ICAO specifications.