BUDAPEST DECLARATION

The combination of these threats and weaknesses puts the security and privacy of European citizens at significant risk, especially when considering the geographically dispersed usage and long lifetime (up to ten years) of current MRTDs... Multilateral technical and organisational security aspects of the deployment of MRTDs taking account of different operators in different countries and the MRTD users (exemplary question: How can abuse of personal data by actors in foreign countries be prevented?)... [2] ISO 14443 chips of the type used in MRTDs are optimised to work with the respective reader equipment in the area of 10 to 15 cm. However, eavesdropping the conversation between such passports and readers from longer distances (2-10 m) is possible (see Finke, T., Kelter, H., Radio Frequency Identification - Abhörmöglichkeiten der Kommunikation zwischen Lesegerät und Transponder am Beispiel eines ISO14443-Systems, Bonn 2004. Download: www.bsi.de/fachthem/rfid/Abh_RFID.pdf) and has..