If you want something more stylish, as plain old tin foil is sooo 1999, check out http://www.rid-shield.com/ . Comes in five different colors, so you can coordinate with all you fashion accessories.
The general idea behind the e-passport is to create harder-to-fake passports as well as speed border processing.
I will avoid the issue of creating counterfeit passports, as in the long run adding an RFID chip to this document will only make it harder to counterfeit. Old non-RFID passports will continue to be accepted for at least another 10 years. By then, it is likely that counterfeiters will have caught on and the issue will be moot.
As for speeding border processing, this is not going to help anything. The passport still needs to be opened, and in the US case, a "passkey" needs to be entered into the system for the data to be readable (crackers already have found ways of decoding the signal and data if they have some basic info about the holder). This can easily be done using 2D barcodes which are not readable without the holder's knowledge.
The problem is with everyone else who can read your passport. Whether the person is able to read all your private data, or simply determine that you hold a passport from a particular country, it already poses problems with security.
As it looks like the passports are here to stay, the only viable solution is to put them into an RF shielded case, such as the RFID Shield. Some will say that the passport already has shielding. This is not always true. The Irish e-passport has no shielding at all. Furthermore, a partially open passport has a greater chance of being read, even if the cover contains shielding. This can easily happen in a purse or in your pocket if you accidentally shove your wallet between the pages.
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If you want something more stylish, as plain old tin foil is sooo 1999, check out http://www.rid-shield.com/ . Comes in five different colors, so you can coordinate with all you fashion accessories.
The general idea behind the e-passport is to create harder-to-fake passports as well as speed border processing. I will avoid the issue of creating counterfeit passports, as in the long run adding an RFID chip to this document will only make it harder to counterfeit. Old non-RFID passports will continue to be accepted for at least another 10 years. By then, it is likely that counterfeiters will have caught on and the issue will be moot. As for speeding border processing, this is not going to help anything. The passport still needs to be opened, and in the US case, a "passkey" needs to be entered into the system for the data to be readable (crackers already have found ways of decoding the signal and data if they have some basic info about the holder). This can easily be done using 2D barcodes which are not readable without the holder's knowledge. The problem is with everyone else who can read your passport. Whether the person is able to read all your private data, or simply determine that you hold a passport from a particular country, it already poses problems with security. As it looks like the passports are here to stay, the only viable solution is to put them into an RF shielded case, such as the RFID Shield. Some will say that the passport already has shielding. This is not always true. The Irish e-passport has no shielding at all. Furthermore, a partially open passport has a greater chance of being read, even if the cover contains shielding. This can easily happen in a purse or in your pocket if you accidentally shove your wallet between the pages.
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Ha! You're not kidding: http://www.rfid-shield.com/products.php in five assorted colors.