Millions of citizens around the world have already acquired their new electronic passport. The e-passport is equipped with contactless communication capability, as well as with a smart card processor enabling cryptographic functionality. Countries are required to build a Public Key Infrastructure to support digital signatures, as this is considered the basic tool to prove the authenticity and integrity of the Machine Readable Travel Documents. The first large-scale worldwide PKI is currently under construction, by means of bilateral trust relationships between Countries. In this paper, we investigate the good practices, which are essential for the establishment of a global identification scheme based on e-passports, together with the security and privacy issues that may arise. We argue that an e-passport may also be exploited in other applications as a globally interoperable PKI-enabled tamperproof device. The preconditions, the benefits, and the drawbacks of using e-passports in everyday electronic activities are further analyzed and assessed. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Lekkas, D., & Gritzalis, D. (2007). E-passports as a means towards the first world-wide public key infrastructure. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4582 LNCS, pp. 34–48). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6_3
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