Giesecke and Devrient: e-passport project for Brunei Ministry of Home Affairs. Giesecke and Devrient Government Solutions has delivered electronic passport documents and a complete personalization system to the Brunei Ministry of Home Affairs.

The US-$7.1 million e-passport project is replacing the country’s existing machine readable passport, which was introduced and delivered by the company in 1993.

A contactless 72 KB chip, made by NXP, is embedded into the data page of the document and contains the personal and biometric data of the passport holder in the form of facial and fingerprint images.

The data page itself is made of the company’s “Pesec” material, that is particularly suited for laser engravings. Its flexibility and durability make for a very good platform for the visual personalization of text, machine readable data, and photos as well as for a series of particular security features.

Advanced security mechanisms for access to the chip data and verification of data authenticity ensure that the data of document holders cannot be misused by unauthorized persons or organizations.

Any criminal manipulation of the electronic data is detected – the documents are protected against forgery.

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