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IBG helped Maltese in e-passport implementation

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The International Biometrics Group, a systems integration firm, has been contracted by the Maltese Government’s IT firm, Malta Information Technology and Training Services, to assist in the development of the country’s National Identity Management System. The new system will see the implementation of e-passports and e-IDs containing biometric information.


The specific roles IBG has played in the implementation of the system has been consulting on procurement and evaluation as well as conducting feasibility studies and writing required specifications for their systems. Among the findings IBG assisted in was the standardization of the different cards so that all citizens could enroll at one place to reduce redundancy and ease support. [end] 

HJP Consulting has completed the German BSI certification process of the Extended Access Control (EAC) e-passport inspection system “Regula series 7004,” manufactured by Regula Baltija Ltd., based in Latvia. The Regula inspection system is an EAC inspection system to be certified according to the test standard BSI-TR 3105 part 5.1 “Test plan for ICAO compliant Inspection Systems with EAC 1.11.”

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Entrust Inc. has been selected to deploy its security solutions for Finland’s Population Register Centre. After implementing its Extended Access Control (EAC) e-passport solution more than two-years ago, Entrust has begun deployment of its Single Point of Contact (SPOC) infrastructure for e-passports.

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According to industry research on e-passport and e-visa from Acuity Market Intelligence, the Top 10 e-passport nations will issue 77 million documents and the Top 10 e-visa nations 56 million documents annually by 2014.

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De La Rue Identity Systems announced that Malta’s upgraded e-passport system with Extended Access Control (EAC) capability has gone live. This new solution delivers a higher level of security and access control, in accordance with the EU regulation for all Schengen Member States, for the addition of a second biometric - two fingerprints - to the data already stored on the chip.

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Entrust has announced the official availability its SPOC e-passport solution.

Developed by the European Union (EU) and the Brussels Interoperability Group (BIG), SPOC serves as the standardized mechanism for certificate management between countries for support of EAC-enabled e-passport.

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SMARTRAC announced that production and shipment of its high security e-Passport inlays at its facility in Chanhassen, Minn. has surpassed the milestone of 1 million units in a single month.

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