METHOD OF READING MRZ USING SAM FOR ELECTRONIC CHIP BASED TRAVEL DOCUMENT OR IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT

• US 20100245034A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Iris Corporation
• Original Assignee: Iris Corporation
• Inventors: Ho, Tuck Keong, D'Oliveiro, Lyndon Irwin
• Application Number:
  US12/301,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20100245034A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.600
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0844 with user authentication or key authentication, e.g. ElGamal, MTI, MQV-Menezes-Qu-Vanstone protocol or Diffie-Hellman protocols using implicitly-certified keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0894 Escrow, recovery or storing of secret information, e.g. secret key escrow or cryptographic key storage

Abstract

Basic Access Control (BAC), as described in the ICAO specifications for machine readable travel documents, requires Basic Access Keys to establish a BAC session. Up to now, the information used to generate these keys has been optically scanned from the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) of the document data page. This invention allows the Basic Access Control feature to be implemented securely without visually/optically scanning the data page of the MRTD.

Claims

1. A plurality of pathways for securely accessing personalized data store in a plurality type of electronic chip based travel or identification documents.

2. The pathway claim in 1;

wherein provides an alternative secure access method other than optical scan or visual.

3. The pathway claim in 1;

wherein using a secure electronic authentication method to retrieve MRZ data.

4. The pathway claim in 1;

wherein using one or plurality of Secure Access Modules (SAM) or Secure Data Module (SDM) both being interrogatable and non-interrogatable.

5. The pathway claim in 4;

wherein attached to a RFID device/reader to facilitate the authentication process and securely communicate with the electronic chip.

6. The pathway claim in 4;

wherein comprise one or plurality sets of access permissions or predefined instruction sets to enable the secure data reading and writing of data to the electronic chip.

7. The pathway claim in 1;

wherein allows secure retrieval of MRZ information from the electronic chip to transfer to the subsequent BAC process.