An Overview of Electronic Passport Security Features
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | The Future of Identity in the Information Society |
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| Web | Springer Link URL |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03315-5_11 |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Electronic passport;basic access control;passive authentication;active authentication;extended access control |
| Description | Electronic passports include contactless chip which stores personal data of the passport holder, information about the passport and the issuing institution. In its simplest form an electronic passport contains just a collection of read-only files, more advanced variants can include sophisticated cryptographic mechanisms protecting security of the document and / or privacy of the passport holder. This paper describes security features of electronic passports and discusses their efficiency. |
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