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
Resident 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:
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Power
optimized [contact-less]
chips for next generation passports (depending on use case conditions-search for
optimal trade-offs performance, working distance)
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Definition and standardization
of a single >1Mb/s contact-less interface extending current ISO and NFC technologies
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New cryptographic blocks
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Advanced Match on Card [MOC] biometric techniques,
based on direct grey-scale image processing, favoring complete interoperability
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SW embedded privacy techniques aimed at providing
users or citizens with a reasonable level of control or their private data when
dealing with the administration
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Embedded SW platforms enabling
plug and play connection between an [IAS]
based platform and a TCP/IP architecture; this will open the
way for innovative use cases based on government platforms and enabling private/public
partnership.
These applications targeted
by the BioP@ss project have both large economical, societal and technical impact
and are supposed to represent a huge part of the complete smart-card market by 2009-2012.
They share in common some stringent needs in terms of security and interoperability
at European (e-Identity, Residence Permit, health …) and international [ICAO] travel
documents levels.