The customer The Public Authority for Civil Information - Kuwait
(PACI) is the government agency responsible for maintaining all
information on population and civil event registration (e.g.
births, deaths and immigration) for Kuwaiti citizens and
residents.
The information collected is held in a central national database
and is used as a basis to provide a number of applications known
collectively as the Civil Information System (CIS).
The challenge PACI already issued paper-based identification
documents and wished to migrate to a highly secure smart card based
solution. Key project requirements included:
Issuance of multi-application JavaCards
Issuance of multiple VeriSign certificates per card
Writing of biometric (fingerprint) data to cards
Driving a central printer farm of 40 printers in a secure
facility
Use of cards as ICAO compliant electronic travel documents
Storage of multiple government agencies’ data on the card with
discrete key protection
Citizen collection of cards from ‘ATM style’ self-service
kiosks
Post-issuance updates of certificates and application data
The MyID solution MyID® from Intercede® was implemented to act
as a single management system for all ‘back office’ and ‘front
office’ national identity card operations. Instructions to
personalize cards are passed to MyID via the MyID Lifecycle
Management API from the central PACI system. MyID then
automatically electronically and graphically personalizes the cards
by driving a farm of 40+ printers in a secure PACI facility. In the
citizen-facing environment MyID allows for cards to be securely
unlocked at the point of collection and for post-issuance
activities such as adding certificates or updating data to be
carried out at a number of card update stations. MyID was
implemented across multiple servers for high availability and
performance.
Implementation of the
Kuwait national identity card
Lifecycle management API
Key management (GlobalPlatform and card vendor proprietary)
VeriSign PKI integration and certificate lifecycle
management
GlobalPlatform JavaCard card management
Applet management
Electronic personalization
Card layout designer (ICAO compliant)
MyID Toolkit Project Designer tool (attribute definition and
data modeling)
Printer connector
HSM connector
Multi server load balanced deployment
Features used
Solution benefits
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Single product managing all back office and citizen facing card
management operations
Combined electronic and graphical personalization in a single
process
Full ICAO compliance for use as an inter-country electronic
travel document
Secure deployment using strong authentication and encryption
techniques
Multi-server deployment for high availability
Load balanced deployment for high volume throughput
Simple web-based workflows require minimal operator training
How MyID can help eID projects Single integrated platform for
end-to-end identity registration
and credential issuance
Full registration capabilities including application form
scanning, ICAO/FIPS 201 compliant photo capture, physical signature
capture and biographic data capture
Project Designer tool lets you define the attributes to capture
and screen layouts for each process
Full adjudication/ID verification support including integration
with external AFIS, local AFIS and background checking services
Card personalization bureau integration, including two-pass and
four-pass models, batch to individual request drill down enquiries
and multiple status updates
Direct issuance from MyID including batch, attended and self
collection
Batch pre-encoding support for faster card activation
Support for multiple concurrent credentials from a single system
(e.g. passport, driving license, eID card)
Support for multiple concurrent issuance models allowing for
emergency cards and temporary replacements
Highly configurable platform to adapt to changing project needs
without extensive recoding
Scales up and out to very high volumes
Mr. Musaed Al-Asousi, Director General of PACI, commented:
“Intercede® has helped Kuwait build one of the most advanced and
sophisticated national identity card systems in the Gulf region.
The selection of the Intercede MyID management system enabled PACI
to deliver a national identity card within time and budget to the
citizens of Kuwait.” “I thank Intercede’s staff for their
professionalism and recommend MyID for other national identity card
projects. I look forward to working with Intercede and its partners
to further expand the size and capability of the Kuwait
system”.