Next week another ePassport interoperability test takes place in London. The community will join to test their next generation smart cards in ePassports with the new protocol Supplemental Access Control (SAC) as a replacement of Basic Access Control (BAC). BAC was designed in the beginning of this century and will be replaced by SAC in December 2014 latest. The protocol SAC bases on the well known protocol Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE) that was mainly developed by German BSI and that is also used in German ID cards issued since November 2010. PACE is specified in TR-03110.

During the interoperability test vendors of chips and inspections system will test their implementations against current conformity test suites of several test labs. More information can be found here: InterOp 2013.

See you in London!