Ensure your Internet Security with ACR83 Secure PIN entry (SPE) personal card reader
May 1, 2007
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 personal card reader is modeled
In high security environments, a so called Secure PIN Entry card reader is required. The ACR83 Secure PIN Entry personal card reader allows the user to enter the PIN on the Card Reader PIN PAD (Class 2 or higher), away from the untrusted PC or workstation. The ACR83 SPE personal card reader will send this PIN directly to the smart card for authentication, thus the PIN is never exposed to the untrusted PC or workstation. It can successfully to eliminate the possibility that a Virus/Trojan or USB Sniffer gets hold of the PIN.
Fits on the palm of your hand, ACR83 is one of the smallest USB class 2 readers in the market. All you have to do is to plug in the reader to standard USB port from the PC, insert the smart card, wait for the command to be displayed in the LCD and securely enter your PIN using the built-in 14-key keypad.
“As one of the world leading smart card reader suppliers, I am proud of our latest development of ACR83 SPE personal reader to be able to provide higher secure service for any Internet security applications, such as e-banking, Enterprise Security, Healthcare, e-commerce, e-government services, online gaming and etc?said Gilbert Leung, Sales Director, Advanced Card Systems Ltd.
Features and Standards
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USB Full speed
- Secure PIN Entry (SPE)
- 14-key keypad
- 2 rows x 16 characters dot matrix LCD, each character is 4x5 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