The future of passports isn't far off, and it isn't in paper. While security features for current passports are printed right on the card, that technology is being eclipsed by a small microchip. Dallas-based Entrust Inc. makes the industry standard digitial signature software, PKI (public key infrastructure), which helps verify the authenticity of digital documents and credentials.
"If you look at the Canadian passport, or pretty much any passport today, they?ll put on invisible inks, they?ll put on holograms, they?ll use some very hard to get paper. They put in all of these ?print security features,?? said. Dave Mahdi, product marketing manager at Entrust.
"The issue with just relying on paper is that people can counterfeit the paper and make fake passports,? he said. ?It?s very easy for border agents to get fooled by playing around with the paper but it?s pretty hard for them to bypass the electronic credentials.? Mahdi said the new passports will be ?in Canada, I think, when you go to get a new passport after 2012.?
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