Public Key Infrastructures — the Next Generation
BT Technology Journal
A Lightweight RFID Protocol to protect against Traceability and Cloning attacks
SECURECOMM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks
Security and Privacy Issues in E-passports
SECURECOMM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks
Practical Attacks on Proximity Identification Systems (Short Paper)
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
IEEE Security and Privacy
Establishing and managing trust within the public key infrastructure
Computer Communications
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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 an Integrated Circuit Chip enabling cryptographic functionality. Countries are required to build a national Public Key Infrastructure to support digital signatures, as this is considered the basic mechanism 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 propose a set of good practices, which are essential for the establishment of a global identification scheme based on e-passports, together with an analysis of 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.