14 July 2011
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Study on the Operational and Technical Security of Electronic Passports (pdf)
"The tender for the study was awarded to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, working together with Collis and the digital-security group of Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The study group began their work in mid 2010 and the study was completed by the spring of 2011.
The specific objectives of the study, as stated in the terms of reference, were as follows:
a) to establish an inventory of security relevant issues in the context of the application for, production, and use of electronic passports (BAC and EAC) in Europe;
b) to individuate differences among EU/Schengen member States and highlight eventual problems for interoperability when the passports are used for identification at external borders;
c) to identify best practices related to the issuance processes;
d) to suggest a set of recommendation to redress security gaps in the issuance process.
The study included direct interviews with selected experts and a questionnaire answered by European authorities, and was concluded with a risk-analysis workshop attended by experts selected by the EU/Schengen Member States national authorities.
The resulting report covers not only security but also interoperability and follows the e-Passport through all the steps of its life-cycle, from application to invalidation."
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