ISO/IEC WD 24787-1

Information technology — On-card biometric comparison — Part 1: General principles and specifications

General information

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ISO/IEC

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17 Cards and security devices for personal identification

International Standard

Scope

This document provides requirements and general principles and specifications for a biometric comparison methodology suitable for the on-card environment.
This document establishes
—    architectures of biometric comparison using an ICC,
—    on-card biometric comparison, both in sensor-off-card systems and as part of biometric system-on-card, and
—    security policies for on-card biometric comparison.
This document does not establish
—    requirements for off-card biometric comparison,
—    requirements for biometric system-on-card (defined in the ISO/IEC 17839 series),
—    work-sharing on-card biometric comparison (defined in ISO/IEC 24787-2), or
—    modality-specific requirements for storage and comparison.

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