FIDELITY

Fast and trustworthy Identity Delivery and check with ePassports leveraging Traveler privacy

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Significant efforts have been invested to strengthen border ID checks with biometrics Travel Documents embedding electronic chips (ePassport). However, problems appeared regarding fraud in the ePassport issuing process, citizen losing control on their personal data, difficulties in certificates management, and shortcomings in convenience, speed, and efficiency of ID checks, including the access to various remote data bases. FIDELITY is a multi-disciplinary initiative which will analyse shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the whole ePassports life cycle and develop technical solutions and recommendations to overcome them. FIDELITY will demonstrate privacy enhanced solutions to: -Secure issuing processes: authentication of documents, preventing impersonation fraud -Improve ePassport security and usability: authentication processes, ID check speed, accuracy of biometrics, management of certificates, access to remote data bases, convenience of biometric sensors and inspection devices -Better manage lost and stolen passports -Strengthen privacy: privacy-by-design applied to all phases of the ePassport life cycle, systematic anomysation of data and separation of data streams, using novel privacy-enhancing-technologies FIDELITY will strengthen trust and confidence of stakeholders and citizens in ePassports, provide more reliable ID checks, hence hinder criminal movements, and ease implementation of E/E records providing better analysis of migration flows. FIDELITY solutions will be designed for backwards compatibility to be deployed progressively in the existing infrastructure. The FIDELITY consortium is composed of market-leading companies, innovative SME, renowned academia, ethical-sociological-legal experts, and end-users, which will help to define requirements and recommendations and assess results. They will, with the other partners actively promote the project results towards stakeholders and international working groups that elaborate future ePassport standards.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

The modern ePassport was meant to make identification more secure, yet problems remain. An EU project re-imagined the ePassport to close the gaps.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Numerous problems have undermined the security and convenience rationales of the ePassport concept, which was to include individual biometric data in the form of electronic chips. Addressing these issues is the 'Fast and trustworthy identity delivery and check with ePassports leveraging traveler privacy' (http://www.fidelity-project.eu (FIDELITY)) project. The 19-member EU-funded consortium began work in February 2012, and will conclude in January 2016.

FIDELITY aims to assess shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the ePassport system, to re-establish stakeholder trust in ePassports and to develop solutions in particular areas. These are: secure issuing processes, improved ePassport security and usability, improved management of lost passports and strengthened privacy.

The project began with setting up management bodies, plus procedures and tools, including the project website.

Next, the project elaborated its specifications for enhanced passports. Draft specifications were presented to the project Advisory Board in September 2012, and revised following the Board's feedback. The project completed procedural and technical developments affecting identity verification, passport issuance and protection of biometric data.

FIDELITY has made progress towards a 'reliable security scheme for trustable verification'. Project work progressed on identity claim verification and on anonymisation concepts and mechanisms, as well as towards resolving ethical problems with data sources. The project has delivered a first draft of the data formats and application interface. The draft included a detailed requirements analysis for the generation of passports, with a focus on chip materials and features.

Based on work to date, the project has submitted a preliminary proposal for a new ePassport architecture.

One legacy of FIDELITY will be improved passport security. In particular the process of issuance, use of passports for border identity checks and the revocation of lost passports have been addressed. Other outcomes will be improvements to ePassport usability, protections against crime and improved privacy.