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MONDEX INTERNATIONAL IS introducing a high-security chip for its smart cards as Mondex pilots worldwide progress toward broader consumer rollouts.
The new chip - the H8/3109, developed by Hitachi -employs public key encryption, providing longer key lengths for encryption codes than the private key encryption used in the previous chip cards, said Robin O'Kelly, a spokesman for London-based Mondex International.
The H8/3109 chip architecture is upward-compatible with next-generation Mondex cards, including cards using the MULTOS...