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The unique VDS Bio is a secure digital identity token, offering digital verifiability and the possibility to enhance any type of identity or personalized credential. It enables efficient and straightforward issuance and verification in accordance with ICAO recommendations.
VDS Bio – Visible Digital Seal With Biometric Facial Landmarks
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommends the use of Visible Digital Seals (VDS) as a secure, globally interoperable, and cost-effective way to protect and verify identity credentials. The VDS Bio solution developed by kinegram.digital complements this technology with biometric facial landmarks. The combination of personal data and biometrics into a single, easily issued and verifiable token adds highly secure protection to any identity token.
At their basis, VDS elements are digitally signed and cryptographically encoded 2D barcodes, usually in the form of a Data Matrix code, that secure identity documents. They enable on- and offline, standard-compliant verification of who issued a document and whether its data were altered. The VDS Bio adds extra security and practicality by combining this with biometric facial landmarks of the digital credential or document holder, providing a consistent and interoperable digital trust layer.
Use Cases of the VDS Bio
The VDS Bio adds virtually impenetrable security and easy, standardized verifiability to any type of digital or physical identity credential, such as
- arrival attestations
- social security cards
- residence permits
- insurance policies
- medical prescriptions
- employee badges
- health certificates
- event tickets
- fishing license
- and many more
It is an identity solution for the reliable identification of individuals – anytime, anywhere.
Features of the VDS Bio
The VDS Bio constitutes an easily issued and verifiable digital identity token, that governments, authorities, and organizations can issue without requiring specialized hardware or infrastructure.
Digitally Signed Data Matrix Code
Personal data, facial landmarks and additional information are encrypted and signed with a private key, providing reliable issuer verification as well as state-of-the-art digital protection against data altering.
Biometrics for Increased Security
The facial landmarks derived from the holder’s portrait enable a high-accuracy face-image-comparison during verification, ensuring protection against “look-alike” fraud.
On- and Offline Verification
Verification is possible both on- and offline via your individual app solution or any official verification app. No network connectivity is required.
Trust and Interoperability
The unique and patented solution is fully aligned with ICAO VDS recommendations, and compatible with ICAO PKD participants, Master List and Health Master List standards.
The VDS Bio is suitable for high-volume issuance environments, decentralized and remote points of service, and anything in between. It is a digital identity token that is unparalleled in its combination of security and simplicity, and provides a highly cost-effective tool for reliable identity verification.
Issuing and Verifying a VDS Bio
Offering a highly robust and proven solution for digital identity establishment and verification, the VDS Bio is simple and straightforward to integrate into any existing workflow for the issuance of identity credentials.
It can be issued in four simple steps:
1. On a dedicated VDS Bio application or website, enter the personal data and take a photograph of the designated holder.
2. The application derives a set of facial landmarks from the holder’s photograph and converts them into secure code.
3. The application then creates a secure Data Matrix code that includes the personal data and the facial landmarks, and asymmetrically encrypts it with your private key.
4. The VDS Bio can be digitally issued and transmitted to the holder, or printed on paper documents.
For the verification of VDS Bio elements, kinegram.digital provides a dedicated app. Alternatively, it can also be verified through your individual check app or a government- or NGO-provided app, following the prior addition of the corresponding public key. It is also backwards-compatible to standard VDS codes – therefore, the signature and biographic data can be verified by any standard VDS reader.
A simple scan with a smartphone then verifies the VDS Bio signature and data, and compares the facial landmarks to a live image or a photograph of the holder.
The Identity Verification Process
Scan the VDS Bio code with the VDS Bio app
Compare the personal data
Scroll down and click the biometry data button
Take a live picture of the ID holder
Compare the result
Technicalities of VDS Bio
kinegram.digital’s VDS Bio is a robust and proven solution for the digital protection and verification of identity credentials.
Its main characteristics include:
- asymmetrically encrypted, secure Data Matrix code, including biographic and biometric information in the form of pre-defined facial landmark points
- created and operated on premise via the secure VDS Bio code generator
- fully compatible with ICAO recommendations for VDS codes and compatible with ICAO standards for PKD participants (list), ICAO Master List & Health Master List
- verifiable through a dedicated app by kinegram.digital – alternatively, through your individual check app or other public verification apps (following prior addition of the corresponding public key)
- easily integrated into existing layouts for digital or physical credentials
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