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HID® Crescendo® Card

Smart cards that enhance your security with support for FIDO2, PKI, OATH, and physical access technologies.

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Crescendo Cards

Crescendo provides organizations with seamless and secure employee authentication, ensuring that only authorized people can access sensitive information. Crescendo Cards offer strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) through a single corporate ID badge to access both facilities and digital enterprise resources. Designed to be easy and fast to deploy, Crescendo Cards are FIDO2 certified and support proven standards such as passkeys, PIV and PKI, enabling organizations to adopt a Zero Trust security strategy that evolves with security standards, technologies and industry regulations.

The Crescendo Card series from HID provides the following benefits.

Seamlessly Secures Any Use Case

Effortless compliance while protecting on-premises and cloud-based enterprise resources with strong authentication to access:
- IT networks, systems and single sign-on (SSO)
- Online applications using FIDO technology or passkeys without having to install any software
Personal computers and shared workstations using Crescendo Cards
Digital signature, enabling users to verify the provenance of emails and documents
Data encryption allowing only authorized users to access sensitive information
Secure printing to ensure confidentiality and guarantee stronger data protection

Offers Converged Corporate Badge

Use a single smart card for visual identity, network, cloud authentication and physical access
Two different interfaces are available to support your dynamic needs: a dual (contact and contactless) interface configuration and/or an iCLASS® contactless interface

Supports Future-Proof Multiprotocol Standards

Support for multiple security standards such as FIDO2, OATH and PKI enable the highest level of security
FIPS 140-3 Level 3, validation in progress

A vital part of HID’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) ecosystem, Crescendo can be used in stand-alone mode or centrally managed by credential management systems provided by HID or by third parties. It works in combination with ActivClient® and Crescendo middleware, as well as both cloud-based and on-premises authentication backend.

HID’s MFA portfolio — consisting of the Authentication Platform and enhanced functionalities like the Credential Management System (CMS), Crescendo SDK and Crescendo Manager — helps organizations improve their security posture, meet compliance requirements and create frictionless user experiences.

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Crescendo Cards

Base Model Number	Crescendo 4000	Crescendo 3000	Crescendo 2300	Crescendo 2300	Crescendo 144K
Base Part	404XXXX (XX is variable based on configuration)	403270B	4023XXXXXX (XX is variable based on configuration)	40222XXXXX (XX is variable based on configuration)	400XXX-D14 (XX is variable based on configuration)
Logical Access	Contact & Contactless	Contactless	Contact & Contactless	Contactless	Contact
Physical Access (RFID interface)	HID Seos 8K MIFARE Classic MIFARE DESFire EV3 Prox	MIFARE DESFire EV2	HID SEOS 8K MIFARE Classic MIFARE DESFire EV1 PROX	HID SEOS 8K iCLASS 32K PROX	HID SEOS 8K MIFARE Classic MIFARE DESFire EV3 iCLASS 32K PROX
Security Standards	PKI, FIDO2 CTAP 2.1, OATH	FIDO2 CTAP 2.0	PKI, FIDO2 CTAP 2.0, OATH	PKI, FIDO2 CTAP 2.0, OATH	PKI
Platform	Java Card 3.0.5 Global Platform 2.3 NXP JCOP 4.5	Java Card 3.0.5 Global Platform 2.3 NXP JCOP 4.0	Java Card 3.0.5 Global Platform 2.2 NXP JCOP 3.0	Java Card 3.0.5 Global Platform 2.2 NXP JCOP 3.0	Java Card 3.0.4 Global Platform 2.2 G&D Sm@rtCafe Expert 7.0
Cryptographic Algorithms	AES-256 Triple DES RSA 2048-4096 bits ECC P256/P384 HMAC SHA1 & HMAC SHA2 256-512-bits	AES-256 Triple DES RSA 2048-4096 bits ECC 640 bits	AES-128 Triple DES RSA1024-2048 bits ECC p256/p384	AES-128 Triple DES RSA1024-2048 bits ECC p256/p384	AES-128 Triple DES RSA1024-2048 bits ECC p256/p384
Smart card Interface	ISO 7816-3 ISO 14443 Type A	ISO 14443 Type A	ISO 7816-3 ISO 14443 Type A	ISO 14443 Type A	ISO 7816-3 ISO 14443 Type A
Communication Speed	Contact up to 688,172 bps Contactless up to 848 Kbps	Contactless up to 848 Kbps	Contact up to 115,200 bps Contactless up to 848 Kbps	Contactless up to 848 Kbps	Contact up to 115,200 bps Contactless up to 848 Kbps
Dimensions	ISO 7810: 2.127” x 3.375” x 0.033” max (54 x 85.7 x 0.84 mm)
Storage Temperature	-31°F to +176°F (-35 °C to +50°C)
Security Measures	Security against known and most recent template attacks Configurable memory encryption Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) Spatial decorrelation of logic functions Certified isolation of NXP and customer code	Security against known and most recent template attacks Configurable memory encryption Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) Spatial decorrelation of logic functions Certified isolation of NXP and customer code	Module protected against SPA, DPA, Timing Analysis and Fault Induction Protection features include detection of out-of-range supply voltage, frequencies and temperatures, and detection of illegal address or instruction	Module protected against SPA, DPA, Timing Analysis and Fault Induction Protection features include detection of out-of-range supply voltage, frequencies and temperatures, and detection of illegal address or instruction	Clock frequency, temperature, supply voltage and light sensors Single Fault Injection (SFI) attack detection Differential Power Analysis DPA protection Timing and fault attacks prevention (DFA)
Card Construction	Composite construction (40% PVC, 60% PET)
Printer Compatibility	Direct-to-Card DTC or High Definition HDP reverse printing
Security Evaluation and Certification	Common Criteria EAL 6+ / NIST FIPS 140-3 (Secure Element) / FIDO2 Level 1	Common Criteria EAL 6+ FIDO 2 Level 1	Common Criteria EAL 5+ NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 2 FIDO 2 Level 1	Common Criteria EAL 5+ FIDO 2 Level 1	Common Criteria EAL 5+ NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 2

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