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This article gives a brief introduction to the Belgian EID card project commonly referred to as “Belpic.” This introduction includes an overview of the history of the project, details on the visual and cryptographic aspects of the EID cards, a discussion of the different sub-CAs involved, together with the card issuing process.
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De Cock, D., Wouters, K., Preneel, B. (2004). Introduction to the Belgian EID Card. In: Katsikas, S.K., Gritzalis, S., López, J. (eds) Public Key Infrastructure. EuroPKI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3093. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25980-0_1
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