Your boarding pass will display your private info
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The U.S Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released a solicitation requesting bids to supply it with new boarding pass scanners and support services.
In its request for proposals (RFP), TSA said it was seeking all hardware, firmware and software for boarding pass scanner (BPS) units. The units must scan, process and display information from the boarding passes of air passengers as well as from linked databases.
According to HLS Today, acquisition of BPS units is part of a strategy at the TSA Office of Security Capabilities to deploy technologies that confirm the identity and validity of air passengers to thwart “any attempt to sabotage commerce and transportation,” the RFP said. Scanning boarding passes matches passenger information against information in DHS terrorist watch lists.
In describing requirements for BPS units, TSA said they must be able to decrypt and read barcodes on airline boarding passes in both paper and mobile formats. BPS units must display a passenger’s name, flight number, flight date and risk status for each PreCheck airline boarding pass.
BPS units also must register errors when the boarding pass has incorrect formatting, contains information on the wrong flight, contains information on flight time that is more than 24 hours away, or lacks a valid digital signature, among other problems.
Successful BPS contractors must obtain the public and private keys for the PreCheck trusted traveler program from US airlines before shipping BPS units from their facilities, TSA said. “The contractor is responsible for obtaining these public keys from the PreCheck airlines and ensuring all BP types produced by all TSA PreCheck carriers are readable by the unit,” the solicitation read.
TSA is looking for fixed BPS units that weigh less than 15 lbs. They also must be less than a foot long, wide and tall. Handheld BPS units must weight less than 10 ounces.
