Ari Juels
Citation: A. Juels, D. Molnar, and D. Wagner. Security Issues
in E-Passports. SecureComm ’05.
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.
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