Timeline for Is the RFID chip in e-passports read-only or is it read-write?
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 12:57 | vote | accept | RoboKaren | ||
| Sep 7, 2018 at 13:12 | comment | added | Mast | "The first is that the only biometric I recall giving when I applied for my passport is my photo" Oh? They wanted my fingerprints as well. Not that anyone in the country has the equipment to read those fingerprints in any meaningful manner at the moment, but they're definitely stored on that chip. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | Perhaps this question would be better answered by security.stackexchange.com? | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 4:46 | comment | added | Stewart | @reirab Wait; Iran has immigration officers? | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 20:39 | comment | added | reirab | @Stewart They might, but they aren't so likely to share that with, say, the immigration officers of Iran. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 16:39 | answer | added | Sam | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 8:05 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | Stewart | @phoog Good point. There I was assuming NSA had everything backed up planetwide ;) | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 16:20 | comment | added | phoog | @Stewart "which is useful when processing 500 tired people getting off a flight": many countries start processing passengers' data while the passengers are checking in, so it's not such an intensive process. "The biometric data could be on a server": government servers do not necessarily talk to each other. The country issuing a passport may keep the biometrics on its servers, but in most cases the country being entered will not have access to those servers. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 16:11 | answer | added | lxgr | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 16:01 | history | edited | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:50 | comment | added | Stewart | @LightnessRacesinOrbit Oh I see. I had considered security to be mainly about identification of the person holding the passport. The biometric data could be on a server. Having it locally on the chip is a convenience. Similar to an ATM card really - all you ultimately need is the account number; the server can verify the correct authority (ie PIN) | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:46 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Stewart I'd consider that part of (but not an exhaustive list of) the security features. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | Stewart | @LightnessRacesinOrbit I see it. The private / public key-pair sounds more useful for data protection than security, so that (if the data was stored on a server) the border guard could only access data pertinent to the passport he/she is presented with. The biometric data - having that locally on the chip saves a heavy download, which is useful when processing 500 tired people getting off a flight. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:27 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Stewart These chips are for security. You cannot have that by storing just a passport number. Technically, in theory, whatever. It has nothing to do with internet access. Take a look at jpatokal's answer to see all the technical information involved with these chips. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:22 | comment | added | Stewart | @LightnessRacesinOrbit OK, I meant in theory, technically that's all you need. If internet access goes down - or for speed - then storing other data is practical and useful. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 10:47 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Also lol at the notion of the government using the cloud to store immigration/citizen data. Perhaps you just meant "servers". | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 10:46 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Stewart There's a lot more than just passport number on those chips (they'd frankly be pretty pointless if that's all they stored). You can try it out using a NFC-capable phone. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | Stewart | Why would you need it read/write? All you need is the Passport Number and then the rest can be stored in government cloud servers. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 9:22 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Well, the data has to get onto them somehow... | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1037173755607437312 | ||
| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:26 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 70 | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:14 | history | edited | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:13 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | There is an ICAO standard which specifies the technical features of such passports. The answer is probably somewhere in there. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:02 | history | asked | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 4.0 |