An E-Passport System with Multi-Stage Authentication : A Casestudy of the Security of Sri Lankaas E-Passport

Abstract

E-passport or Electronic passport is one of the newly established research areas, especially since in the last few years there have been numerous reported attempts of illegal immigration across a number of country borders. Therefore, many countries are choosing to introduce electronic passports for their citizens and to automate the verification process at their border control security. The current e-passport systems are based on two technologies: RFID and Biometrics. New applications of RFID technology have been introduced in various aspects of people2019;s lives. Even though this technology has existed for more than a decade, it still holds considerable security and privacy risks. But together with RFID and biometric technologies an e-passport verification system can reduce fraud, identity theft and will help governments worldwide to improve security at their country borders. In 2017 Sri Lankan government proposed to introduce a new epassport scheme which will contain embedded RFID tags for person identification purpose. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel multi-stage e-passport verification scheme based on watermarking, biometrics and RFID