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Many governments are starting to issue Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) in the form of passports and residence permits with an embedded chip capable of storing biographic information, such as the document holder face portrait, and biometric data, such as the document holder fingerprints. In order to be able to exploit the full potential of these documents, public and private entities need to be able to read and verify the authenticity and integrity of the information retrieved from these documents’ chips. Furthermore, when biometric information, such as fingerprints, is available, it may be useful to be able to validate whether the fingerprints retrieved from the document match the ones acquired live from the document holder.
Quality assurance reader
A key part of any personalization system for these documents is quality control: checks to ensure that the cards and chips have been personalized correctly. While data printed on the card can be verified by optical or manual inspection, data stored on the chips needs to be read and verified electronically. The IBM Quality Assurance Reader (QA Reader) accesses data on chips according to the most recent international standards, verifying that it has been correctly written and that it matches the printed information.
Check Point Reader
The IBM Check Point Reader (CP Reader) accesses data on the chips according to the most recent international standards. Once these validations have been completed, it acquires the document holder’s fingerprints and performs a comparison with the templates stored in the chip. The result of this process is conveyed to the inspector through a very simple and intuitive user interface, which allows further examining of both the physical document as well as the information stored in its embedded chip.
Secure chip personalization server
The IBM Secure Chip Personalization Server (SCS) personalizes chips with user or application-specific information and performs a wide range of related tasks. SCS can be adapted to support all existing and emerging chip and encryption standards and applications. For example, SCS supports chip personalization on identity cards including support for EAC-protected data, ISO 18013-compliant driver’s licenses, and on cards used for remote authentication supporting protocols such as CAP.
