The U.S. Congress has introduced a roadmap for migration to contactless chip passports for citizens and visa waiver countries,in order to strengthen the laws and processes of border control and immigration.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that sets standards for travel documents, recommends that such electronic passports be used to store biometric features for automated facial and fingerprint recognition. Typically,a digital facial photo and 2 or more fingerprint images are to be stored on a contactless high security microchip inside the passports protected by different types of security layers.

Security mechanisms of the electronic chip inside an ICAO and EU compliant ePassport include passive authentication (PA) to prove data integrity, basic access control (BAC) for data privacy, active authentication (AA) for copy protection and extended access control (EAC) as an advanced security mechanism to protect sensitive holder information such us fingerprints.

MTCOS can be configured to meet all of these requirements. Just with basic access control or including EAC, furthermore, with or without AA in both cases. MTCOS supports random UID, our unique software anti skimming feature and other important security mechanisms to protect passport holders from unallowed tracking, passport cloning etc. MTCOS is designed and certified Common Criteria EAL4+ high according to PP0017, PP0026, PP0055 and PP0056.

MTCOS Professional

MTCOS Standard (BAC only)