The cryptography behind electronic passports
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Summary
How electronic passports use cryptography to block forgery, eavesdropping, and cloning, where legacy protocols like BAC fall short, and what this means for zero-knowledge identity proofs.
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--- id: 1327 title: "The cryptography behind electronic passports" source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10/31/the-cryptography-behind-electronic-passports/" published_at: "2025-10-31 11:00" tags: ["cryptography", "privacy", "threat-modeling", "zero-knowledge", "e-passport", "emrtd"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1327" lang: en --- # The cryptography behind electronic passports ## Summary How electronic passports use cryptography to block forgery, eavesdropping, and cloning, where legacy protocols like BAC fall short, and what this means for zero-knowledge identity proofs. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com - **Published:** 2025-10-31 11:00 - **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10/31/the-cryptography-behind-electronic-passports/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1327