Your personal network safeguard

Secure web and e-mail services by storing your digital identity on a smart card.

On the Internet, businesses large and small can work more closely with suppliers and be more responsive to their customers. The types of services found on the World Wide Web range from electronic commerce and home banking, to intranet/extranet and e-mail. Before there can be a broad-based acceptance of these activities, network security must be established to build the necessary user confidence and provide the protection businesses and individuals need. With GemSAFE™, Gemplus delivers an easy-to-use smart card-based solution to secure your network transactions.

GemSAFE combines a smart card and a reader with advanced software in an easy-to-use package for securing Web site access and the exchange of e-mail through Microsoft and Netscape browser and e-mail suites.

You’re Sure its Secure 

The latest standards for web access (SSL3) and e-mail (S/MIME) allow interoperability for security services between web browsers and servers, and between e-mail clients.

GemSAFE integrates seamlessly with these protocols and offers the highest level of security for storing your personal identity. GemSAFE stores and secures your digital identity to prevent misuse and fraud. This is possible because smart cards ensure confidentiality of transactions with a series of encrypted keys that protect information on the card. Using public-key cryptography, smart cards keep confidential information stored in a safer manner within the card than on a PC, which is vulnerable to tampering. PIN (Personal Identification Number) codes ensure proper identification while the microprocessor on the card carries out user authentication.

Peace of mind in your Wallet

With the GemSAFE solution, users can store their identity and confidential information on a smart card, enabling complete portability. Traveling with your electronic identity in your pocket, you can now simply and securely access network services with your personal, PIN-protected smart card from any GemSAFE-equipped PC in the world.

Just plug it in

GemSAFE is designed to be easy to use. You simply connect the smart card reader to the PC, install the software on a Windows 95™ or Windows NT™ -compatible computer and, after following a few simple instructions, activate the card with a personal certificate.

Technical specifications

Software modules

• Ready for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and Outlook Express (via CAPI)
• Ready for Netscape Navigator4 and Messenger (via PKCS#11)
• Runs on Windows95 and WindowsNT 4.0 or later.
• Online and offline certification
• SSL3 and S/MIME enabled
• PC/SC compliant

Smart card

• Manufactured to ISO7816-1, -2, -3, -4 specifications
• On-board RSA1024/512 signature and key unwrapping
• X509v3 certificate storage
• 4 kbytes EEPROM
• PC/SC 1.0 compliant

Readers

• Read/write all microprocessor cards manufactured to ISO7816-1-2-3 specifications
• Read/write most synchronous cards
• PC/SC 1.0 compliant
• Available in North American and international versions to comply with export regulations.

Running GemSAFE

The GemSAFE kit contains:

• GemSAFE smart card
• stand-alone smart card reader
• CD-ROM with software and documentation
• Quickstart guide
• Pre-paid downloadable digital certificate

A GemSAFE evaluation kit is also available.

Just install this kit on your Windows 95 or Windows NT-compatible PC and use your personal smart card to get access to SSL enabled web servers and send/receive S/MIME e-mail.