Motorola Ships Industry's First 32-Bit RISC Java Card 2.1 Technology/Visa Open Platform 2.0 Card.

Business/High Tech Editors

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000

Motorola M-Smart Jupiter(TM) Supports Multi-Applications with

Dynamic Application Loading and Increased Speed, Security and Memory

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) today announced it has begun shipping its new M-Smart Jupiter(TM) MJ1000C smart card.

The high-performance smart card is the first in the industry to provide a 32-bit Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) microprocessor and the first to provide a hardware-based Secure Memory Management Unit (SMU) for securely separating multi-applications. It supports dynamic application loading, and it is also the first 32-bit card in the industry based upon Java Card(TM) 2.1 technology and Visa Open Platform 2.0 standards.

"Motorola is setting the pace in the smart card industry with the M-Smart Jupiter smart card, following closely on our M-Smart Mercury(TM) contactless smart card announcement in January," said Francois Dutray, Motorola's vice president and general manager, Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division. "For the first time, an open platform card is truly equipped with the robustness required to handle multiple applications in the real world."

What this means is that the Jupiter MJ1000C card has the memory, processing power, and security necessary to support applications ready today and to securely add new ones developed tomorrow. With the Jupiter card, issuers can even allow users to customize the mix of applications on the card, and change them later if desired in person or over the Internet.

For example, with the Jupiter smart card you could securely log on to your computer, purchase an airline ticket via an encrypted Internet connection, and download the boarding pass onto your smart card. Then you could log onto a government Web site that reads your card's unique security code and requires a PIN for verification. After confirming your identity, you would be able to download your travel visa onto the Jupiter card and use it to board an airplane to your international destination. Upon arrival, you could plug that same smart card into your computer and download an application allowing you to collect hotel and rental car loyalty points. And, perhaps most importantly, by plugging that card into your computer again, you could download a first class upgrade for the flight home.

M-Smart Jupiter Smart Card Features/Specifications

Jupiter's 32-bit RISC processor offers higher performance than current smart card technology that is based on Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) processors. This is because Jupiter's RISC processor uses fewer types of computing operations than CISC processors and is able to process those operations significantly faster. This provides the Jupiter card with the extra power required for complex algorithms such as biometrics or compression.

The SMU enforces hardware separation of Java(TM) applets, or applications, independent of the Virtual Machine level inherent in the Java Card platform's architecture. Motorola is the first in the industry to implement this hardware-based security feature, ensuring that no application or user data can ever be accessed by another application. Also an industry first, this feature provides a way to securely re-use memory space on the card, which is critical for changing card applications as needed. Earlier cards based separation of applications on software, leaving open the possibility of errors or attacks. Motorola eliminates these risks by utilizing a hardware SMU.

The Jupiter card features a built-in crypto-accelerator, making it ideal for public key security certificates of the type typically used in Internet and computer security. The crypto-accelerator, a specially designed hardware accelerator on the IC in the card, provides very fast computations of RSA public keys and other arithmetic-intensive security operations. The card has built-in support for signing, verification, and hashing using the standard SHA-1 method. It also supports 512, 768, and 1024 bit RSA key lengths as well as single or triple DES to allow issuers to match cryptographic strength with the application demands.

It also contains significant read/write memory, essential in a multi-application Java technology-based smart card. The card has 16KB of EEPROM, providing sufficient storage for several Java applets, or applications. It also has a large 48KB of ROM and 3KB of RAM, providing space for the operating system and custom extensions as required. Later this year, Motorola plans to provide a card with additional memory -- 64KB ROM and 32KB EEPROM -- to allow for the growing number of multi-applications that it envisions being deployed in the near future.

The new Jupiter MJ1000C card has been optimized for greater efficiency in demanding applications. In addition to the high-speed RISC architecture, the Jupiter card has a large 262 byte command buffer, which makes transactions more efficient compared to other cards that use smaller buffers and must build up the packet in pieces. The command buffer complements the 262 byte command packet size (APDU) specified in the standard T=1 communications protocol used by the Jupiter card.

The M-Smart Jupiter MJ1000C card operating system follows the Java Card technology Application Programming 2.1 Interface (API) standard. The Java platform, widely accepted as a portable application programming language throughout the world, gives large card issuers more flexibility in selecting card suppliers. Delivering the major benefits of version 2.1, the Jupiter MJ1000C card has the ability to execute true applets, allowing for the creation of more powerful applications and making it easier to add or change applets. The Jupiter smart card, based on the Java Card 2.1 platform, promotes the use of OO (Object Oriented) techniques to produce applets, allowing for the creation of more powerful applets, making it easier to add or change applets, and providing all the benefits of OO techniques.

As the first 32-bit implementation of Java Card 2.1 technology and Visa Open Platform 2.0 specifications, the card follows the Visa Open Platform 2.0 API for card and application life cycle management. This provides a standardized structure for installing, using, maintaining, and terminating applications securely. The card complies with ISO and industry standards, including ISO 7816 levels 1,2 and 3. The card is in the process of being approved by Visa for financial applications.

The Jupiter card is complete and application-ready with an operating system optimized for size and performance and Motorola's M-Smart(TM) JADE -- the Java Card Application Development Environment. JADE allows card issuers to rapidly build and test smart card applications in a Java environment. The workbench provides a friendly, robust development environment resulting in shorter application development cycles.

A perfect-platform for Internet and computer security, the Jupiter card is also ideal for financial, health care, identification and other high-security and high-performance applications.

About Motorola Inc.

Motorola, Inc., with sales of $30.9 billion in 1999, is a global leader in providing embedded electronic and integrated communications solutions. Motorola's Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division (WSSD) provides complete multi-application smart card system solutions including smart cards, application development, systems integration and operations management. The company's platforms allow organizations to quickly deploy and build value-added smart card applications in areas such as transit, access control, campus, government and healthcare.

M-Smart, M-Smart Jupiter and M-Smart Mercury are marks of Motorola, Inc. Sun, the Sun logo, Java and Java Card are all registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in all other countries.