PKI System
For electronic identity documents, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is required in order to personalize the chip with the holder’s information and to digitally sign these data. The digital signature serves various purposes:
- Protecting chip data against alteration and fraud
- Ensuring data authenticity and data integrity
- Enabling verification by the authorities
MB TRUST ICAO PKI fulfills international criteria regarding keys and structures for digitally signing machine-readable travel documents (MRTD’s). Chip data is signed in compliance with ICAO Doc 9303 and ISO/IEC 18013, enabling ICAO-compliant passive authentication of chip data.
Based on a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Mühlbauer provides solutions for the different ePassport generation standards:
- Basic Access Control (BAC)
- Extended Access Control (EAC)
- Supplemental Access Control (SAC) or
Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE)
Mühlbauer provides a PKI-based Country-Signing Solution for BAC and SAC and a Country-Verifying Solution, which is necessary for MRTD’s with EAC.
MB TRUST eGOVERNMENT PKI is the key technology for an electronic citizen identity. The eID document is more than a simple identity proofor a time-saver for contacting administration authorities. It is a document
- To interact with citizens in a new way
- Providing a cost-effective strategy
- For citizens’ access to online services (eServices)
- Used for Secure Signature Creation Device (SSCD)
