ICAO-COMPLIANT BIOPASS E-PASSPORT SOFTWARE TOOLKIT
 
Introduction

With the rising threat of global terrorism that has sprung up in increased proportions in recent years, Governments all over the world are forging ahead with initiatives to tighten their homeland security and removing threats that may arise from external and internal entities.
One significant area of concern is border control, and the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO has specified the use of biometric information in electronic documents like the passport to curb the problem of identification forgery at the border and immigration control lines. ICAO has specified the use of biometric information to be mandatory used in Machine Readable Passports or MRP.

Border authorities have already begun and initiative efforts to follow these specifications, to include mandatory facial scans and optional fingerprints and optional iris scans of passengers in an electronic smart passport, stored on contact less smart chips. The smart passport is subsequently protected by the highest possible security techniques in the market today.
 
We recognize that immigration authorities are now in aggressively trying to move into the implementation and deployment of their country’s smart passport. In response to this requirement, NTS has developed and launched the BIOPass suite of integrated software systems and toolkits to aid border control solution providers rapidly move into this area in a timely and risk free manner.
 
The BIOPass e-Passport Software Toolkit (BEST) is an application level interface (API)-based toolkit that provides software developers, system integrators and total solution providers a quick and easy means to read / write ICAO compliant data structures, and perform key operations critical to the immigration procedures. BEST is available for Microsoft operation systems such as Windows XP, 2000, PocketPC and Windows CE.NET.

The BEST toolkit provides function level support for the Logical Data Structure as defined by ICAO in their Technical Report: TR-LDS specification version 1.7 and TR-PKI version 1.1. The toolkit also supports hash and signature generation with SHA-1, SHA-256, RSA, and SC37 Biometric Data Image Exchange formats.
B.E.S.T FEATURES

  • Software Development Kit for creating, editing and reading files compliant with the Machine Readable Travel Documents specification published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

  • Supports reading / writing of Logical Data Structure and SC37 encoded formats.

  • Supports reading and writing of image formats such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, and WSQ.

  • Support hash and signature generation based on SHA-1, SHA-256 and RSA.

  • Support verification functions such as Basic Access Control, Passive Authentication and Active Authentication as defined in the ICAO specifications.

  • Available on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Pocket PC 2003, Windows Mobile 2003 and 2005 and Windows CE.NET.
Our Client

  • Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) – Singapore. ICA is responsible for the security of Singapore's borders against the entry of undesirable persons and cargo through land, air and sea checkpoints.

  • PCS Security Pte. Ltd.
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