Smart Cards for Identification and Passports
Wolfgang Rankl, Wolfgang Effing · 2010
Smart card technology is very well suited to use in the realm of personal identification, such as ID cards, identification documents, and passports. Finnish Electronic Identification Card (FINEID) smart cards are part of a public-key infrastructure, and are based on a signature application compliant with PKCS #15. Each FINEID smart card is valid for three years, and it can be used as a travel document in most European countries. Documents that comply with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards are generally referred to as machine readable travel documents (MRTDs). A radio frequency identification (RFID) chip is used as a storage medium for the personal data already present in the passport as well as supplementary biometric feature data. A mechanism called basic access control (BAC) is specified to prevent uncontrolled reading of the data in the RFID chip. Controlled Vocabulary Terms radiofrequency identification; smart cards