The Taiwanese government will start issuinge-passportsto its nearly 23 million
citizens by the end of 2008 in an effort to tighten border control
and reduce the use of forged travel documents.
The government will use Dallas-based
Entrust's public key
infrastructure running on Hewlett Packard hardware to authenticate
biometric information stored on machine-readable travel documents
or e-passports.
The Bureau of Consular Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs will sign each applicant's digitised personal information
and photograph with an Entrust digital signature for basic access
control (BAC).
Entrust already provides BAC e-passport security for the US, UK,
Slovenia, Singapore and New Zealand.
