Safety Measures and Privacy in E-Passport Scheme using Cryptographic Protocols and Biometrics Technology
International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security (IJCIS), 2 (3):
21-35 (September 2012)DOI: 10.5121/ijcis.2012.2302
Abstract
Electronic passports have known a wide and fast employment all around the world since the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) the human race has adopted standards whereby electronic passports
can store biometrics identifiers. The purpose of electronic passports is to prevent the illegal entry of
traveler into a particular country and frontier the use of counterfeit documents by more accurate
recognition of an individual. The electronic passport, as it is sometimes called, represents a bold initiative
in the employment of two new technologies: Cryptography protocols and biometrics. An electronic passport
contains the significant personal information of holder such as photo, name, date of birth and place, nationality, date of issue, date of expiry, authority and so on. The goal of the adoption of the electronic passport is not only to expedite dealing out at border crossings, but also to increase safety measures and privacy. Important in their own right, electronic passports are also the harbinger of a wave of nextgeneration electronic passports: numerous national governments plan to set up electronic passport integrating cryptography safety measures algorithm and biometrics. We walk around the privacy and safety measures implications of this impending worldwide experiment in biometrics certification technology. We describe privacy issues that apply to electronic passports, and then analyze these issues in the context of the ICAO standard for electronic passports. An overall safety measures process that involves people,
technology and procedures can overcome limitations of the cryptography protocols and biometrics technologies.