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Australian smart card standard coming to U.S.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Centrelink, the Australian human services agency, is pitching its smart card technology in the U.S., according to a CRN.com news report.

Two-day workshops are planned in Canberra, Australia in June and Washington in July to introduce Centrelink’s PLAID protocol. PLAID stands for Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of ID. PLAID is a standard for how smart card ID system communicate.

The U.S. workshops are in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. PLAID was developed by Centrelink and is available free to the public in hopes that a vendor will use it and build products for the specification.

The April meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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