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Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Gemplus, a provider of smart card- based solutions, May 15 announced the launch of GemXplore Trust, an enhanced SIM card platform for end-to-end mobile commerce security. GemXplore Trust is an enhanced SIM card with an on-board cryptographic engine. This engine provides a library of cryptographic functions, which can be accessed by standard SIM Toolkit applications to allow the easy creation of PKI client applications on the SIM card. GemXplore Trust uses the 1024 bit RSA algorithm and provides anti-SPA and anti-DPA protection for security. It is STK phase 2+ compatible, and provides 32 Kbytes of EEPROM for storing STK applications and also has the support of the Public Key functions provided in GemXplore CASE. Several off- the- shelf mobile commerce applications which run on GemXplore Trust include: WIM, the smart card-based mobile commerce client for WAP 1.2, ST browser with PK functionality, SmartTrust SmartSignature, a secure PKI client for digital signatures which works with Sonera SmartTrust's mobile PKI solutions. Other applications will be announced in the future.