Date: 16/09/2012

EAL6+ certified contactless IC card chip from Sony

Sony's Contactless IC card chip RC-SA00 FeliCa IC with embedded software received EAL6+ certification of Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408), the international standard for evaluation criteria for IT security.

RC-SA00 FeliCa IC chip features AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for mutual authentication and encrypted communication with a reader/writer device. Sony began volume shipments of this product in summer of this year.

The EAL (Evaluation Assurance Level) in Common Criteria ranges from EAL1 to EAL7, and EAL6+ is defined as a level that offers extremely high security assurance for protecting high-value assets against severe security risks.

The RC-SA00 FeliCa IC chip received EAL6+ certification from a third-party security evaluation body.

Since 1996, Sony has shipped over 600 million card chips and Mobile FeliCa chips, which have been incorporated into cards and mobile phones for applications ranging from transportation passes to electronic money.