Our normal passport & The E-passport

THE NORMAL PASSPORT :-
A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies the identity and nationality of its holder for the purpose of international travel. The elements of identity contained in all standardized passports include information about the holder, including name, date of birth, gender and place of birth.
A passport does not of itself entitle the passport holder entry into another country . It does, however, normally entitle the passport holder to return to the country that issued the passport.



THE E-PASSPORT :-
A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport, ePassport or a digital passport, is a combined paper and electronic passport that contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of travellers. It uses contactless smart card technology, including a microprocessor chipand antennaembedded in the front or back cover, or center page, of the passport. Document and chip characteristics are documented in the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) The passport's critical information is both printed on the data page of the passport and stored in the chip. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used to authenticate the data stored electronically in the passport chip making it expensive and difficult to forge when all security mechanisms are fully and correctly implemented.


If we com pair between the two passports given up , the biometric passport is more secure as all data is stored on the chip and it cant be forged because of the electronic key it has, also it is hard to track the passport as the chip can't be redden from a distance firther than 10cm, but in the other hand it takes along time to load the data stored on the chip and also the chip has a limited opacity which is another con of the e-passport.