Ascertia, the leading authority in PKI and digital signatures released ADSS ePassport Server, strengthening the capability of the Trust Services Platform and providing global governments with a trust infrastructure obedient to the latest standards obtained from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the European Union.
Ascertia ADSS ePassport Server enables the granting of ICAO docile certificates providing Passive Authentication, the core security mechanism with the support of Basic Access Control (BAC) to confirm the integrity and authenticity of electronic machine-readable travel documents. Ascertia’s solution offers a comprehensive Extended Access Control (EAC) offering, obedient to the latest EU standards from the Federal Office for Information Security in Germany. Extended Access Control contributes countries with the potential to control and can access passport holder’s biographic information stored on computer-readable travel documents. Ascertia ADSS ePassport Server ensures governments can:
- Protect their borders with confidence
- Observe with the latest international standards
- Secure customer information
- Promptly validate a document holder’s identity on arrival
- Completely control the secure distribution of materials required for travel document validation
Ascertia CTO, Mike Hathaway stated that it continues to intensify its highly practical Trust Services Platform with multiple use cases. It is the only company in the world providing a platform capable of delivering and managing certificates from its own infrastructure, as well as from every leading PKI platform, for delivering certificates. Ascertia is a world leader in high-trust digital signature solutions, PKI and certificate authentication products and others include ADSS Signing Server, XAdES, PAdES, and CAdES signing engine that delivers a wider selection of trust services through its flexible, scalar modular design, and ADSS Server SAM Appliance offering uniform Remote Qualified Signature creation capabilities and a superlative user experience. SigningHub is available in a private, public, or hybrid cloud. Next to its PKI products, Ascertia is known for SigningHub, its e-signature platform delivering secure, and also standard-based digital signatures.
Ascertia ’s offering in the ePassport server is different because it offers:
- A complete BAC and EAC product offering: Document Signer, Master List Signer, NPKD, CVCA, DVCA, SPOC systems, and associated client SDKs to make integration into personalization and inspection systems easily.
- Specifically, to the observance of the latest standards:
- ICAO 9303 7th Edition Part 12 for Basic Access Control
- BSI TR-03139 v2.2 for Extended Access Controls
- BSI TR-03129
- BSI TR-03110
- CSN 36 9791
- On a single system, multiple components are employed, simulated and distributed as required.
