Re:The New Swiss Passport
by roobs on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:26AM
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The "paper version" is still required - the RFID is authenticated with information from the passport. The idea is at a border the passport itself will be scanned, OCR'd (from the data in the machine-readable zone) and then that information will be used to read the information + signature from the RFID chip to authenticate the document.
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Re:The New Swiss Passport
by 1letterunixname on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:50AM
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No, you're wrong. The person's passport number is a primary key into the issuer's database of valid documents as the ultimate source of truth. The RFID is another means in case the paper version wasn't legible, but at the expense of over-communicating details.