IDTECH Augusta - Quick Chip and M;Chip Fast Support; Secure Read and Exchange of Data (SRED) Support

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1.1. Quick Chip and M/Chip Fast Support
Augusta-series readers with firmware at V1.01.003 or higher support firmware-integrated
Quick Chip and M/Chip Fast, allowing for 2-sec EMV transactions in USB Keyboard mode
(compatible with virtual terminals) – a patent-pending ID TECH innovation. (Note: The ID
TECH patent applies to the keyboard-mode implementation, not Quick Chip itself.) See
Appendix A for more information.
1.2. SRED Support
Augusta S incorporates PCI-PTS 4.x SRED (Secure Read and Exchange of Data) support, for
the most demanding security environments. Note that Augusta S is dimensionally the same
as standard Augusta but has a Part Number that contains '851.' Augusta S supports Quick
Chip and M/Chip Fast (as described above and in Appendix A) as well as all normal modes of
the standard Augusta, but incorporates additional security features:
• Augusta S incorporates advanced tamper-detection features, including circuitry that
will automatically zero out encryption keys (rendering the unit useless to an
attacker) if the unit is opened or disassembled.
• Augusta S features fulltime encryption: No sensitive data will ever be output in
plaintext format.
• Encryption in SRED mode is TDES.
• Sensitive commands require MAC authentication. In particular, the following
commands require authentication in Augusta S:
o Set White List
o Set Date & Time
o Set CA Public Key
o Set Certification Revocation List
o New KSN/Key Pair
• Optionally, transaction output may contain a MAC hash of sensitive track data. See further
discussion at EMV L2 Data Output as well as the Set Verify Encrypt Data Output command.