NAME¶

mrtdreader - Reader for machine-readable travel documents (MRTDs / passports)

SYNOPSIS¶

mrtdreader [options] <MRZ>

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the mrtdreader command.

mrtdreader is a program which takes as input the content of the Machine-readable zone (MRZ) of Machine-readable travel documents (MRTD) and then reads out some data from the MRTD via RFID/NFC and dumps the facial image to a file.

MRTDs such as passports nowadays usually contain an RFID chip for storing various data. The Basic Access Control (BAC) scheme is supported via the library libmrtd and mrtdreader is the example program delivered together with libmrtd. It uses several cryptographic functions in order to do the necessary decryption of the content of the MRTDs. The key for the BAC-scheme is derived from the Machine-readable zone (MRZ) which is printed on the MRTD.

Content of MRTDs:

EF.DG1 - 0101 - MRZ
EF.DG2 - 0102 - Facial image
EF.DG3 - 0103 - Fingerprint
EF.DG4 - 0104 - Iris
EF.DG5 - 0105 - Portrait
EF.DG6 - 0106 - RFU
EF.DG7 - 0107 - Displayed signature
EF.DG8 - 0108 - Data features
EF.DG9 - 0109 - Structure features
EF.DG10 - 010A - Substance features
EF.DG11 - 010B - Additional personal details
EF.DG12 - 010C - Additional document features
EF.DG13 - 010D - Optional details
EF.DG14 - 010E - EAC
EF.DG15 - 010F - AA Public key
EF.DG16 - 0110 - Persons to notify
EF.CA - 011C -
EF.SOD - 011D - Security object data - hash values
EF.COM - 011E - EF.COM

OPTIONS¶

If the MRZ is specified on the command line, the following options are ignored. If the MRZ is not specified, all the three following options must be specified and the MRZ will be calculated from them.

-p <passport-number>

With this parameter, the passport number can be specified. It consists of maximum 9 ASCII letters or digits. Note that if this one is specified, also -b and -e must be specified.

-b <date-of-birth>

Specify the date of birth in the format YYMMDD. Note that if this one is specified, also -p and -e must be specified.

-e <expiration-date>

Specify the expiration date in the format YYMMDD. Note that if this one is specified, also -p and -b must be specified.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).