epassports & Visas Overview

Secure Travel Documents

International travel and border crossings are the subject of continuous new challenges and change. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations agency that oversees international air travel, formulates global policies and strategies to respond to these realities. Their main objective is to provide security and facilitation for international travel and has updated their recommendations for electronic Passports (e-Passports) to be compatible to the Logical Data Structure (LDS) Version 2.0 format specifications.

MagellanGO, in partnership with MCS Microsystems Group from Malaysia, our specialized security printers, and ePassport equipment suppliers have created a ubiquitous ePassport environment that meets the dynamic security threats to international travelers globally.

Our ePassport technology stays current with the latest capabilities and requirements, so that our travel documents offer the strongest security. Our ePassport Control System (EPCS) represents an end-to-end ePassport Platform with a modular design for ease of implementation and need for a cost-effective solution.

ePassport & Visa Platform Highlights

Production

Personalization

Front Office

During production, we serialize IC Chips and data pages, inspect electronic inserts and data pages, begin tracking the IC Chip, reconcile serial

numbers and ensure quality checks.

Front Office

Personalization

Front Office

Capture and manage applicant's profile

details, photographs, application forms and supporting documentation, and biometric data (as required by the government).

Personalization

Personalize an ePassport or Visa document with the holder's information, generate authentication

keys, and produce the required digital certificates. We ensure quality control processes are met.

Back Office

Personalization

Entails all background processes such as Applicant Interviews, Application Approval, Registry Updates, Criminal Record Updates, and Administration and Reporting Modules

Data Center

Back Office

Data Center

The Data Center is the centralized infrastructure for different ePassport & Visa modules for Key Management System (KMS), the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and the Biometric Servers.

Security

Back Office

Data Center

Our ePassport and Visa Systems have multiple layers of built-in security including identity verification through biometrics, PKI, AFIS, Blockchain, Tokenization, and much more.

Standards, Specifications, and compliance

Multi-application Operating System (MOS)

Our MOS complies with the following standards and specifications:

- ICAO Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Document, 7th Ed., 2015

Basic Access Control (BAC)
Supplemental Access Control (SAC) Password-Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE) (GM, CAM, ECDH, TDES, AES, CAN, MRZ)
Active Authentication (RSA, ECDSA)
Extended Access Control (EAC) Chip Authentication (ECDH, TDES, AES)
Extended Access Control (EAC) Terminal Authentication (ECDSA, SHA-2)
CVCA migration: elliptic curve domain parameters and key sizes

- ICAO Technical Report Logical Data Structure (LDS) for Storage of Data in the Contactless IC

- BSI TR-03105 Conformity Tests for Official Electronic ID Documents

- ISO/IEC 15408 Common Criteria EAL 4+ – MRTD with EAC and PACE protection profile

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