Paper 2005/095
Security and Privacy Issues in E-passports
Ari Juels, David Molnar, and David Wagner
Abstract
Within the next year, travelers from dozens of nations may be carrying a new form of passport in response to a mandate by the United States government. The e-passport, as it is sometimes called, represents a bold initiative in the deployment of two new technologies: Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and biometrics. Important in their own right, e-passports are also the harbinger of a wave of next-generation ID cards: several national governments plan to deploy identity cards integrating RFID and biometrics for domestic use. We explore the privacy and security implications of this impending worldwide experiment in next-generation authentication technology. We describe privacy and security issues that apply to e-passports, then analyze these issues in the context of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standard for e-passports.
Note: Includes new information on European e-passports.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
PS
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Abbreviated version in IEEE SecureComm 2005
- Keywords
- passport RFID ICAO biometrics
- Contact author(s)
- dmolnar @ eecs berkeley edu
- History
- 2005-09-18: last of 3 revisions
- 2005-04-03: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2005/095
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/095,
author = {Ari Juels and David Molnar and David Wagner},
title = {Security and Privacy Issues in E-passports},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/095},
year = {2005},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/095}
}
