Special Forensic Equipment for Authenticity Control of Travel Documents
| Company | Regula |
|---|---|
| Date | 01.07.2014 |
Regula group attended the EU SAC/PACE Interoperability and Conformity Tests during the MRTD Regional Seminar in Madrid, Spain from 25 to 27 June 2014. Regula SDK for passport/document reader performed successfully with all documents, providing full support for BAC, SAC (PACE v2 with generic and integrated mapping), AA, PA, CA, TA.
The tests are based on the European Union States mandatory implementation of the ICAO Supplemental Access Control (SAC) mechanism for machine readable travel documents.
Recognizing that electronic passports (e-Passports) need to be protected, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) introduced the Supplemental Access Control (SAC) mechanism for Machine Readable Travel Documents. SAC provides an access control mechanism that is supplementary to Basic Access Control (BAC). This mechanism is based on Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE) as specified by ICAO. The test focused on the implementation of PACE v2 as specified in the Technical Report “ICAO Technical Report RF PROTOCOL AND APPLICATION TEST STANDARD FOR E-PASSPORT – PART 3” (version 2.01, February 2013).
For further information on BAC, SAC and PACE, please refer to
http://www.icao.int/Security/mrtd/Pages/Technical-Reports.aspx
