Country Signing Certificate Authority Slovenia
  

The Certification Authority for Slovenian Biometric Passports

 

Why and when biometric identifiers in passports? (source: Ministry of interior)

Biometric identifiers shall be integrated in the passports of Slovenian citizens in order to establish a reliable link between the genuine holder and the document because of the Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 of 13 December 2004, which entered into force on the January 18, 2005. The Regulation defines standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States. Two biometric data are determined to be mandatory - facial image and fingerprints. Member States shall apply the Regulation:

  • as regards the facial image: at the latest 18 months (till the August 28, 2006)
  • as regards the fingerprints: at the latest 36 months.

The biometric identifiers will have to be stored on a contactless radio chip which will be incorporated in passport. The regulation in the Article 6 states that the validity of passports already issued shall not be affected.

Slovenia is also one of 27 countries included in the Visa waiver Permanent Program, which enables their citizens to enter the United States of America without a visa for the purpose of tourism or business or in transit when such visits are for 90 days or less. Since October 26, 2005 the passport must include a machine-readable zone and digital photograph. For the passports, issued after October 26, 2006, it will be required to contain a contactless radio chip with biometric identifiers.

The role of CSCA-SI

In compliance with the recommendations of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) the biometric data, stored on a contactless radio chip, should be digitally signed. For this purpose each Member State establishes the Country Signing Certificate Authority (CSCA), whose role is to generate the certificates for the Document Signers.

CSCA-SI is part of the Certification Authority at the Ministry of Public Administration and operates in a closed invironment with the Document Signers systems.

The data about CSCA-SI

Contact
Address CSCA-SI
Ministry of Public Administration
Tržaška cesta 21
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
Phone (+386) 01 4788 600
Fax (+386) 01 4788 649
E-mail
Web page: http://www.csca-si.gov.si
Revocation phone: (+386) 01 4788 777

CSCA-SI at the beginning of its operation generated its own certificate (CSCA-SI certificate, identification number 1149775140), which is designed for signing certificates for Document Signers and for verifying CSCA-SI signatures or the validity of data in holder's certificates.

The data about the CSCA-SI certificate
Identification number 1149775140
Certification Authority CSCA-Slovenia
The holder of the certificate CSCA-Slovenia
Validity of the certificate from June 08 2006 till June 08 2021
Signature algorithm sha256WithRSAEncryption (1.2.840.113549.1.1.11)
Key length 4096 bits
SHA256 fingerprint 3A:88:A2:88:91:DC:B5:7E:DE:41:DE:F5:C4:E1:85:29:FE:B9:DD:01:
47:3B:C8:5F:10:3E:27:78:B7:74:FF:52
SHA-1 fingerprint FC:3C:80:C1:34:EC:10:C5:4D:13:A9:07:F3:9D:5D:B1:F8:F7:4B:35
CSCA-SI root certificate in DER format
in PEM format
Certificate Revocation List
(CRL)		 in DER format
in PEM format

The distingushed names of the issuer CSCA-SI and the subjects are created by the following rules :
Type of the certificate Field name Distingushed name
CSCA-SI certificate issuer c=si,
o=state-institutions,
ou=e-passport,
cn=csca-slovenia
subject's certificate subject c=si,
o=state-institutions,
ou=e-passport,
cn=<name>,
sn=<serial number>

The Certification Authority at the Ministry of Public Administration, June 2006