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Electronic National ID


ID cards will provide legal residents, including foreign nationals, with an easy and secure way of proving who they are.
ID cards will be linked to their owners by unique biometric identifiers (for example, fingerprints), which mean we will have a much stronger way of protecting people's identities. Background checks will ensure that claimed identities are real and not stolen, and will prevent criminals using multiple identities.

The format of an ID card will most likely be a credit card-sized plastic card featuring the holder's photograph and a computer chip storing basic personal information.

MaskTech's MTCOS Standard and Professional solutions satisfy the most important recommendation for chip based ID cards according to the euopean citizen card standard - IAS / CEN224 framework or other national standards: Contactless, dual interface or contact based chipsets with 9 ... 144 kByte EEPROM, powerful initialization and pre-personalization features e.g. global platform, designed especially for the requirements of a secure card manufacturing process, ISO/IEC multi-application file system, ICAO travel document functionality with basic access control, active authentication and extended access control - qualified electronic signature - age verification - and more.