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Title Story in The VAULT Magazine

How will Post-Quantum Cryptography affect Contactless Travel in Entry-Exit Solutions?

The VAULT Magazine published the speech of our Head of Information Systems Lutz Richter as title story!

For everybody interested in future requirements for Entry-Exit systems of airports and border crossing points, click here to download the article or check out the full magazine here.   

Abstract:

The travel process today

Everyone is familiar with the way we travel today. We start with the registration of the traveler at a self-service kiosk. This is normally a passport, or in terms of ICAO, the eMRTD – where the document is read and, ensuring everything is correct according to the specification, the verification of the individual against this travel document takes place.  

Next, more or less seamlessly, you go to a gate that uses face recognition. The traveler is verified and can cross the border or go to the aircraft and make the boarding process. This is currently state-of-the-art, is established in different setups, and the trust element here is the travel document with the electronic chip and the digital information from a government authority. This is what we call the Trust Anchor.

Read the full article here!