SCOSTA Certificate Renewal : Indian Standard for Smart Card Operating System

Organisation : Indian Standard for Smart Card Operating System SCOSTA
Facility : Certificate Renewal

Certificate Renewal : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/19159-Renewal.pdf
Website : http://www.scosta.gov.in/Certificate.htm

Certificate Renewal :

Renewal of the certificates shall be performed for the valid “Certificate of Compliance” already issued by the Smart Card Product Body of National Informatics Center.

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For the renewal, following conditions shall apply:
1. Request of renewal is made along with the necessary documents, before or within 15 days of expiry of validity of Certificate.
2. There is no change in the information submitted by the applicant in the original application form submitted for the first/expired certificate during the single/two phase testing procedure of Certification Body.
3. The pre-requisites (ISO 9001:2008, Chip Security Certificate etc.) remain valid at the time of renewal request.

4. Version of the Operating System Software burnt into the Hard Mask has not undergone any change from the original version as defined in the original application submitted by the applicant.

5. The Microcontroller/ Microcontroller Chip details are same as provided in the original application.

6. Name and Address of Manufacture remain same as mentioned in the original application. If there is any change in the name / address then certificate of incorporation should be submitted.

7. In case of flash based product :
7.1 “Flash Programming Declaration Certificate” shall be submitted by the supplier/applicant from chip vendor declaring that the Operating System has been loaded in the Flash Memory chip at wafer level in the chip manufacturer’s facility and that it has been locked at that facility in a way that it cannot be altered, modified, erased or deleted either selectively or wholly. The format of the certificate is given in SCSPC-04-10.

7.2 The applicant should submit from chip vendor EAL4+(or Higher) Common Criteria Certificate along with Security Target of Evaluation of the Boot loader/Flash Loader/Start Program / Boot Program under the Common Criteria Certificate. The Common Criteria Certificate must display BSI-CC-PP-0035-2007 / BSI-CC-PP-0084-2014 (or newer) Protection Profile.

7.3 The supplier/applicant shall provide the Chip ID Tool (hardware and software) to allow identification of the chip in the smart card submitted for certification, in case of flash based product.

The applicants shall submit following along with the request for renewal:
1. Duly signed Undertaking by the authorized signatory in the below given format.
2. Copies of ISO 9001:2008 Certificates & Chip security certificate as mentioned in the undertaking.

3. Twenty Sample Cards/ Microcontroller Modules/ Inlays with the chip number as mentioned in the undertaking. The Cards / Modules / Inlays submitted by the applicant should have Applicant Name, its Brand name and the Serial number duly printed on the card itself through dye sublimation printing.

4. Bank draft of amount Rs. 25000/- in favor of NIC.
5. Smart Card/Microcontroller Module/Inlay shall comply to SCOSTA/SCOSTA-CL standard (as mentioned in the application).

About Us :
National Informatics Center worked along with other agencies which included academia and industry players, to evolve a complete implementable Smart Card Operating Systems Standards, which is named SCOSTA (Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application).

Since the standards were developed on the request of Ministry of Transport and Highways, that is how the name of standard included the name “Transport Application” in it.