ACS announces that ACR38 has obtained FIPS 201 Certification and ACR38K Smart Keyboard is launched

Nov. 23, 2008 - PRLog -- ACR38 has obtained FIPS 201 Certification

The ACR38 Smart Card Reader has been certified to conform to the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 201 and is listed in the FIPS 201 Approved Product List.
The approval of the ACR38, categorized under Transparent Reader, by the US Government through the FIPS 201 Evaluation Program allows the ACR38 to be used by the Unites States Federal Agencies in their smart card applications such as physical access, network access and other authentication solutions.

The FIPS 201 certification is a requirement of GSA (Government Services Administration) for devices used in a smart card solution to ensure government-wide interoperability. Aside from this, the certification proves the quality, durability, speed, and reliability of smart card readers. ACS has supplied over one million ACR38 smart card readers to the world market in 2008 with the biggest percentage shipped to Europe. The certification against FIPS standard is expected to help ACS serve better the USA market. Other ACS smart card readers will also be submitted for FIPS 201 certification representing ACS’s drive to further grow in the big and potential market of the United States.

ACS unveils ACR38K Smart Keyboard

ACS introduces the ACR38K Smart Keyboard to the world’s market. The ACR38K Smart Keyboard is compact, robust and stylish. The Keyboard combines the smart card reader to a keyboard which enables much convenience to implement smart-card-based systems or applications in the PC environment. With a secure ACR38 smart card reader module embedded, ACR38K Smart Keyboard provides you a high level of security on digital authentication and transaction. Since the ACR38 module supports a large variety of smart cards including ISO-7816 Class A, B and C cards as well as most of the common memory cards, the ACR38K enhances the flexibility of your smart card applications. For further details, please visit: http://www.acs.com.hk/acr38k.php.

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