Cryptomathic is a software company specializing in the area of cryptography

Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

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Cryptomathic has its headquarters in Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

, Denmark. The company was founded in 1986 by three professor

Professor

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s from University of Aarhus

University of Aarhus

Aarhus University , located in the city of Aarhus, Denmark, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university...

, among them Ivan Damgård

Ivan Damgård

Ivan Bjerre Damgård is a Danish cryptographer and currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science , Aarhus University, Denmark....

, Peter Landrock. It now operates world-wide with offices in Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

; Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 and San José, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

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The company develops secure software solutions for the financial and governmental industries. It focuses especially on developing back-end solutions using hardware security module

Hardware Security Module

A hardware security module is a type of secure cryptoprocessor targeted at managing digital keys, accelerating cryptoprocesses in terms of digital signings/second and for providing strong authentication to access critical keys for server applications...

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Awards and Recognition

In 2003, Cryptomathic was recognized by the World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 as a Technology Pioneer, based on its innovative product for mobile electronic signatures. In 2004, Cryptomathic received the VISA

Visa

Visa or VISA may refer to:* Visa , a document issued by a country's government allowing the holder to enter or to leave that country...

 Smart Star Award for it contributions to the field of EMV

EMV

EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and VISA, a global standard for inter-operation of integrated circuit cards and IC card capable point of sale terminals and automated teller machines , for authenticating credit and debit card transactions.It is a joint effort between Europay, MasterCard and...

 and Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN is the brandname adopted by the banking industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland for the rollout of the EMV smartcard payment system for credit, debit and ATM cards.- History :...

 based on its data preparation offering. In 2010, Cryptomathic's founder, Peter Landrock was named a Finalist for European Inventor 2010 in the "Lifetime Achievement" category by the European Patent Office

European Patent Office

The European Patent Office is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation , the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the Organisation while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative...

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Products

• CardInk EMV Data Preparation Solution
• Authenticator versatile strong authentication
  Strong authentication
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• Signer central signing server using 'virtual' chip cards
• HSM Portal Portal to cluster Hardware Security Module
  Hardware Security Module
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• CKMS Key lifecycle manangement and distribution to security targets