Central PKI: Confidence and Trust at the Border Successstory: secunet eID PKI Suite enables the German Federal Police to check EAC1- and EAC2-protected ID documents at border control points

Indispensible: checking the electronic part of the passport Due to the increasing demands on the control process, a reliable document verification with PKI as the core of this process is required. Challenge The demand for smart documents is growing. This opens the door for border authorities to benefit The high-tech eID documents such as ePassports from the full potential of electronic documents. or the German ID card (nPA) for example are For example, it enables them to reliably check leading the way in deploying robust technical each passenger’s ePassport in seconds, while all measures that...

Client Sector: PKI ensures efficient and secure document verification when crossing the border Government / law enforcement Organisation: The German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) and its approximately 45,000 employees are assigned to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. They are acknowledged as a vital part of the country’s national security system. Border protection, railway policing and aviation security belong to the Federal Police forces‘ core tasks. Requirements Facts and Figures secunet supplied a number of services including: ■ the provision of central server infrastructure...

Solution Because secunet had recently implemented the ■ At the heart of secunet’s offering is the provision An authorised inspection system (IS) needs to gain TCC for the BSI, it was well positioned to develop access to the data stored in the eID document. To prove a border control application to read and verify (DVCA) to generate the digital certificates, that the IS is authorised it has to use the highly secured electronic identity documents at the German which are transmitted to the Terminal Control inspection system key that belongs to the Terminal border. The secunet experts have worked...

“We have been success fully operating our central PKI system since 2011. Following a smooth, simple implementation, the entire system has proved itself to be incredibly efficient and reliable on a daily basis.” SPOC ICAO-PKD Mobile Border Controls Stationary Border Controls Mathias Grell, EasyPASS Project Manager, Department 54, German Federal Police Implementation A mission-critical system such as German border control needs to be ultra-reliable and highly secure, so secunet is running it on a clustered Linux 2011, secunet has been supporting the Federal Police the client’s existing IT infrastructure....

Success secunet’s team of PKI experts ensured that the The German authorities can now be confident that existing eID document checking system was only legitimate eID documents are used to cross migrated to the new server infrastructure on time their borders. The secunet system is already prov- ing its worth by identifying fake and manipulated documents. It also authorises the IS and enables The firm’s successful implementation of a PKI solution for the German Federal Police means that data, while also guaranteeing that only authorised border control posts across the country are now connected,...

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