Saturday, April 20, 2013

CCID descriptor statistics: iManufacturer

Article from the serie "CCID descriptor statistics"

The iManufacturer field is a text field from the USB descriptor: describing manufacturer

iManufacturer#%
Gemalto228.66 %
SCM Microsystems Inc.176.69 %
VASCO114.33 %
ACS103.94 %
Identive103.94 %
SpringCard103.94 %
KOBIL Systems93.54 %
ATMEL83.15 %
OMNIKEY AG83.15 %
Cherry GmbH72.76 %
C3PO62.36 %
Eutron62.36 %
Inside Secure62.36 %
Bit4id51.97 %
Broadcom Corp51.97 %
XIRING51.97 %
Aktiv41.57 %
Alcor Micro41.57 %
KOBIL41.57 %
Neowave41.57 %
OMNIKEY41.57 %
Athena31.18 %
COVADIS31.18 %
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH31.18 %
Precise Biometrics31.18 %
id3 Semiconductors31.18 %
ActivIdentity20.79 %
Avtor20.79 %
BIFIT20.79 %
Dell20.79 %
Feitian20.79 %
Fujitsu Siemens Computers20.79 %
Hewlett-Packard Company20.79 %
Morpho20.79 %
O220.79 %
Philips Semiconductors20.79 %
REINER SCT20.79 %
Todos20.79 %
Verisign20.79 %
Yubico20.79 %
ASK-RFID10.39 %
ActivCard10.39 %
Akasa10.39 %
Aktiv Co., ProgramPark10.39 %
Aladdin10.39 %
Axalto10.39 %
BLUTRONICS10.39 %
CCB10.39 %
Dectel10.39 %
Feitian Technologies10.39 %
Free Software Initiative of Japan10.39 %
FujitsuTechnologySolutions GmbH10.39 %
GIS Ltd10.39 %
Gemplus10.39 %
Generic10.39 %
German Privacy Foundation10.39 %
GoldKey Security10.39 %
HDZB10.39 %
Hewlett Packard10.39 %
KEBTechnology10.39 %
Kingtrust10.39 %
Lenovo10.39 %
MSI10.39 %
MYSMART10.39 %
Macally10.39 %
NTT Communications Corp.10.39 %
NXP10.39 %
OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES10.39 %
OCS ID-One Cosmo Card10.39 %
Panasonic10.39 %
RSA10.39 %
Raritan10.39 %
SYNNIX10.39 %
SafeTech10.39 %
SchlumbergerSema10.39 %
Secure Device Solutions10.39 %
Sitecom10.39 %
Softforum Co., Ltd10.39 %
Teridian Semiconductors10.39 %
TianYu CCID Key10.39 %
Tianyu10.39 %
VMware10.39 %
Validy10.39 %
Winbond10.39 %
charismathics10.39 %
ubisys10.39 %


A lot of readers are from different manufacturers. If you group the manufacturers by the number of readers they have produced we have:

# of reader per iManufacturer# of iManufacturer%
14653.49 %
21416.28 %
355.81 %
455.81 %
533.49 %
633.49 %
711.16 %
822.33 %
911.16 %
1033.49 %
1111.16 %
1711.16 %
2211.16 %


More than half (53%) of the readers are from a manufacturer that made only one CCID reader. 16% are from manufacturers with 2 readers.

My interpretation is that the reader chip has been designed by one of the major reader manufacturers and the reader chip has been sold to another manufacturer.