User-centric identity using ePassports

Abstract

The worldwide introduction of ePassports presents a unique opportunity for the online identity community to implement trustworthy identity providers. The ePassport provides citizens with a strong authentication token within a global Public Key Infrastructure backed by government administrations. This paper studies the possibilities for leveraging the ePassport for user-centric identity and reports on an experiment in which ePassports are combined with the user-centric identity management framework Information Card. Note that no changes to already deployed ePassports are needed for our solution to work.© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2010.