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Security of Electronic Passports

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Electronic passports look like traditional passports. The difference is in an additional chip that is able to store several kilobytes of data. The article first focuses on the technology used (iso 14443 compatible contactless smartcards) and then discusses the security features of the electronic passports. The usual categorisation - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability is used. Basic Access Control (including a detailed analysis of the entropy of the data used to derive the keys) and Active Authentication is described in more details.
2007-02-22
crypto-world.info, ISSN 1801-2140
JRC34670
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