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The development and usage of the CPACE specifications continues to evolve. After a validation phase, the eSecCPACE program (Evaluation of Security by ECPC for CPACE products) is now available to perform security evaluation and certify CPACE card-based payment instrument. Contact: info@paycert.eu More information on: europeancardpaymentcooperation.eu
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Both companies ELITT SAS and PayCert SAS, subsidiaries of CB Investissements, merged into ELITT SAS on January 1st 2024. Since this merger, the historical activities of the two entities, both specialized in secure electronic payment, transport ticketing and identity transactions, have been operated in two independent Business Units: BU Testing ELITT, the ELITT test laboratory,...
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September 2021 – PayCert is proud to announce the successful issuance of the first certificates for contactless kernels and dual cards in compliance with the CPACE specifications. Please find hereafter the official press release from The European Card Payment Cooperation (ECPC), home of the CPACE specifications: Download
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PayCert and ICUBE, a leading testing laboratory for secured electronic transactions interfaces, announce that they now provide an international certification scheme compliant with ISO/IEC 17065 requirements, and dedicated to eMRTD including electronic Passports, Resident Permits and ID cards. In order to ensure a satisfactory level of security and interoperability on electronic machine readable travel documents...
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PayCert plays a role of Certification Authority STCA (Secure Transactions Certification Authority). STCA involves the management of CA and certificates performed by Groupement Cartes Bancaires : for terminals for acceptance servers and acquiring systems. The goal of this service is to simplify the authentication of Payment terminals, through a unique root for the entire park...
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PayCert certifies for the first time the functional conformity of an eMRTD (electronic Machine Readable Travel Document) with the specifications ISO/IEC 14443:2016 and travel documents ICAO Doc 9303 7th Edition. The concerned product is an electronic Resident Permit, developped by Gemalto Thalès Group. The evaluation tests were successfully performed by the service test center ICUBE,...
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