Crypto-biometric systems in the ePassport life cycle
Christina-Angeliki Toli · Lirias (KU Leuven) · 2013
With the globalization of our society we are increasingly engaged in transactions, both online and offline, with people we do not know. This has created a need for technologies based on reliability that allow individual identification and authentication in a way that cannot easily be abused. Physical or behavioral properties inherent to an individual are commonly referred to as biometrics. Biometric systems have found their way to a wide range of application domains such as forensics, immigration and border control, or physical and logical access control. Passwords compared to biometrics is that the second field is considered to be more secure and reliable but have an increased awareness of the privacy issues that come with their use. This discrepancy between security demands and privacy awareness has given rise to the field of biometric template protection. Hide biometric data, prevent linking of hidden data and maintain the ability to authenticate or identify a person is some of the objectives of this project. The application will be focused on an improved version of travel documents embedding electronic chips called electronic passports (ePassports).