The BioP@ss project
The BioP@ss project targets the development
of advanced (microelectronics and embedded SW) secure
and interoperable smart card platforms for all needed e-administrative
applications requested at European level (e-identity, but also e-health, Residence
Permit,...). It will leverage on the results of the former Onom@Topic+ MEDEA+ project
and especially reuse the open middleware architecture proposed by the Consortium
partners and currently under approval by some standardization committees.
The prime applications targeted by the project
are e-identity cards based on the European Citizenship Card (ECC) family of standards currently
under finalization at the CEN, and the next generation of Electronic Passports / Residence Permit,
in view of complying with the EU requirements that should come in force by end 2009.
The BioP@ss consortium supports the approach of the European Citizen Card (ECC) which combines the
benefits of standardization with the required flexibility to adopt to national requirements by
introducing individual ECC-profiles. A specific goal of the project will be to make all efforts
that solution components that will be generated in BioP@ss will comply to the ECC profiles
that represent the French and the German implementation of the eID-card. It is nevertheless expected
that the project application fields could cover other areas such as electronic health,
electronic voting or electronic Residence Permit...
The project will capitalize of the former
Onom@Topic+ HW and embedded results, and more especially on all the proofs of concept achieved
so far in the area of advanced contactless interfaces ([VHDR], NFC,..), embedded biometric components,
advanced modeling techniques, embedded [IAS] SW platforms. It will however introduce several key new
technology elements, such as:
- Contactless Power and Hard bricks optimization
- Definition and standardization to extend 14443 contact-less interface protocol beyond 1Mb/s
- New cryptographic blocks and Protocol as PBM for better privacy
- Advanced Match on Card [MOC] biometric techniques eg. BIO PIN MoC
- SW embedded privacy
- Embedded SW platforms enabling plug and play connection between an [IAS] based platform and a TCP/IP architecture or ECC3 Web Serveur; this will open the way for innovative use cases based on government platforms and enabling private/public partnership.