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D3.6: Study on ID Documents

Categorisation of ID Documents  Title:
BASIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR ID DOCUMENTS
 Chip Card Technologies (Smart Cards)

 

Basic Technologies for ID Documents

Introduction

In this chapter basic technologies which are going to be used for eID document-implementations are introduced. The selection of these technologies here is based on various presentations and demonstrations at the conferences Net-ID 2005, World eID 2005 and e-Smart 2005, Digital World ID 2005 and Net-ID 2006. Currently the following technologies are mainly being discussed:

 

Abbreviation 

Description 

SmCh 

Smart Chips 

Laser 

Laser-optical Zones for storage of mass data (up to 1.8 MByte) 

RFID 

Radio Frequency Identification 

Cert 

Digital Certificates 

ElSig 

Electronic Signatures 

PKI 

Public Key Infrastructure 

Bio 

Biometrics 

Face 

Face Recognition 

Finger 

Fingerprint Recognition 

Iris 

Iris Scan 

Table : Overview on technologies used for eID documents

 

 

Categorisation of ID Documents  fidis-wp3-del3.6.study_on_id_documents_03.sxw  Chip Card Technologies (Smart Cards)
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