Architecture and Assessment: Privacy Preserving Biometrically Secured Electronic Documents

Abstract

This document explores an application which uses biometrics to secure electronic travel authorizations granted to foreign passport holders wishing to visit Canada. Rather than traditional biometrics, we use privacy enhancing techniques to derive references from the biometrics so that no biometric information must be stored by the application. We describe the architecture and key algorithms for a biometric-enabled electronic Travel Authority(b-TA) system in which foreign passport holders obtain electronic credentials which permit entry to Canada. This b-TA can be seen as a privacy preserving biometric version of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) travel authorization required by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for US Visa-Exempt Countries or Canadas eTA program under Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1004317

Entities

People

  • David Bissessar
  • Dong Liu
  • John Harvey
  • Sherine Nahmias

Organizations

  • Canada Border Services Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Biometric Security
  • Biometrics
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • European Union
  • Identification Systems
  • Identity Management Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Security
  • Mobile Phones
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Security Protocols
  • Smartphones
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Canadian European Scientific Immigration and Epilepsy Clearance Studies
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics