Biometric reader
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On September 11, 2007, Bioscrypt announced the release of the PIV-Station, a biometric reader for the U.S. federal government market.
Bioscrypt's PIV-Station helps U.S. federal organizations meet the personal identity verification (PIV) requirements mandated by the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), by bringing Bioscrypt's long-standing expertise in the biometric access control market to the FIPS 201 program. Federal Information Processing Standard 201 requires all government agencies and contractors to authenticate civil servants and employees using stronger authentication methods, including fingerprint biometrics, for physical and logical access control. In order to meet the FIPS 201 standard, Bioscrypt ported its FIPS 201-approved Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) algorithm to a high performance digital signal processor (DSP) from Texas Instruments which is embedded in the new reader.
The PIV-Station increases security at federal buildings by adding a biometric layer of authentication - a unique identification factor that cannot be lost, copied or stolen. Nearly three million federal employees, six million state employees and five hundred thousand contractors will be enrolled in the program.
The PIV-Station has received General Service Administration (GSA) approval as a FIPS 201-compliant Card Holder Unique Identifier (CHUID) Reader (Contact) and CHUID Reader (Contactless) - making it the first fixed Physical Access Control reader to be certified in both categories. The reader also incorporates Bioscrypt's GSA-approved ANSI/INCITS 378 fingerprint template and is currently undergoing testing by GSA in the biometric reader category.
The PIV-Station also includes a GSA-approved single fingerprint capture device from UPEK.
For approval as a CHUID Reader (Contactless), Bioscrypt also incorporated a FIPS 201-compliant contactless interface technology from Gemalto.
The PIV-Station is capable of supporting card-read protocols, such as DESFire and Mifare.