US attached RFID chip for passport

According to the announcement of the US Department of the Interior on October 25, all new passports bearing this nationality from October 2006 will be attached with RFID chip to store information and digital photos of users.

The US Department of the Interior will test the program in December with government officials carrying diplomatic passports when going public. The electronic passport will be equipped with a 64Kb RFID chip to store the necessary personal information. Other modern technologies such as fingerprint identification, biometric scanning . will be added to RFID chips in the future.

The plan for implementing and applying electronic passports is not only for the US but also for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UK and Germany. ICAO, an organization of the UN, has also announced that it has developed international standards for electronic passports to store information such as name, nationality, gender, date of birth, place of birth and photo. number.

The US will also use ICAO's international electronic passport specification to create a common uniform standard. This specification uses the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) key to protect data against unauthorized infringements through digital signatures.

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