ACS, Hong Kong, 31 May, 2007 - Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (HONG KONG STOCK Exchange: 8210, www.acs.com.hk), Asia Pacific's number one supplier in PC-linked smart card readers industry (Source: research report issued by Frost & Sullivan), announces that the ACR83 Secure PIN entry (SPE) personal card reader is being introduced to the market.
In high security environments, a Secure PIN Entry card reader is required for securing transactions online. ACR83 allows the user to enter the PIN on the Card Reader PIN PAD rather than on the untrusted PC or workstation. ACR83 will send this PIN directly to the smart card
for authentication, thus not exposing the PIN to the untrusted PC or workstation. It eliminates the possibility that a Virus/Trojan or USB Sniffer gets hold of the PIN.
Fitting in the palm of your hand, ACR83 is one of the smallest USB PIN PAD readers in the market. The user can plug in the reader to a standard USB port in the PC, insert the smart card, wait for the command to be displayed on the LCD and then securely enter the PIN using the built-in 14-key keypad.
"ACS being one of the world's leading smart card reader suppliers, I am proud of our latest development of ACR83 SPE personal reader which provides high security services for Internet security applications, such as e-banking, Enterprise Security, Healthcare, e-commerce, e-government services and online gaming." said Gilbert Leung, Sales Director, Advanced Card Systems Ltd.
Features and Standards
- USB Full speed
- Secure PIN Entry (SPE)
- Fully functional 14-key keypad
- 2 rows x 16 characters dot matrix LCD, each character 5x8 dots
- Read and write all MCU cards with T=0 and T=1 protocols
- Support 1.8V, 3V and 5V MCU cards
- Short circuit protection
- ISO 7816-1/2/3 compatible smart card interface
- CE/FCC
- Microsoft WHQL XP and Vista
- Rohs Compliant
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