On security and crypto issues of e-passports
Zdeněk Říha (MU, Brno)

The follow up talk (of the talk on MKB 2007) will focus on security issues of electronic passports. In particular possibilities of identifying the passports issuing country will be discusses. A few optional features and not unified error response codes allow for relativelly easy identification of a manufacturer of the chip and possibly also of a particular model of the chip. In practice that means that whenever we can communicate with the ePassport we can guess the issuing country even if we do not perform the Basic Access Control authentication.