An on-line secure e-passport protocol

Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan*, Josef Pieprzyk, Huaxiong Wang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The first generation e-passport standard is proven to be insecure and prone to various attacks. To strengthen, the European Union (EU) has proposed an Extended Access Control (EAC) mechanism for e-passports that intends to provide better security in protecting biometric information of the e-passport bearer. But, our analysis shows, the EU proposal fails to address many security and privacy issues that are paramount in implementing a strong security mechanism. In this paper we propose an on-line authentication mechanism for electronic passports that addresses the weakness in existing implementations, of both The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and EU. Our proposal utilises ICAO PKI implementation, thus requiring very little modifications to the existing infrastructure which is already well established.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security Practice and Experience - 4th International Conference, ISPEC 2008, Proceedings
EditorsLiqun Chen, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo
Place of PublicationBerlin; New York
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages14-28
Number of pages15
Volume4991
ISBN (Print)3540791035, 9783540791034
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event4th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2008 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: 21 Apr 200823 Apr 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4991 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Other

Other4th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2008
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period21/04/0823/04/08

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