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Electronic passports include contactless chip which stores personal data of the passport holder, information about the passport and the issuing institution. In its simplest form an electronic passport contains just a collection of read-only files, more advanced variants can include sophisticated cryptographic mechanisms protecting security of the document and / or privacy of the passport holder. This paper describes security features of electronic passports and discusses their efficiency.
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Říha, Z. (2009). An Overview of Electronic Passport Security Features. In: Matyáš, V., Fischer-Hübner, S., Cvrček, D., Švenda, P. (eds) The Future of Identity in the Information Society. Privacy and Identity 2008. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03315-5_11
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