E-passports are major improvements over original passports in a few key ways. We break down what makes them different from ...

Customs and Border Protection officers can download and read the information on the RFID chips in U.S. passports, but they can’t authenticate it, according to a Feb. 22 letter from two senators. CBP ...

The passports hold biographic information and a digital photograph embedded in a contactless chip. The chip communicates by radio wave with a reader, which enables the information to be scanned ...

Frank Moss, the U.S. State Department's former deputy assistant secretary for passport services, says the electronic passport is not a panacea, but does provide a number of real and potential benefits ...

German chip maker Infineon will supply the RFID chips for up to 15 million electronic passports to be issued by the US Government over a year. RFID passports hold encrypted digitised personal ...

India's new chip-enabled e-passports offer enhanced security, faster immigration processing, and seamless global travel. Learn about the benefits, rollout, and what travelers need to know about this ...

An April 3 article on the U.S. government's plan to embed radio-frequency technology in passports incorrectly implied that Donald Davis, editor of Card Technology magazine, was a critic of the plan.

This article was originally published by RFID Update. August 7, 2006—The technology press is awash in articles today proclaiming yet another RFID security vulnerability, this time with respect to ...

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which uses a common ...