MorphoAccess® VP Series - User Guide
Section 7: Access control by Authentication
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Authentication process
Introduction
The MorphoAccess® terminal offers an authentication mode designed to works with
contactless smart cards used as personal cards.
Then this section relates to only MorphoAccess® terminals equipped with a
contactless smartcard reader (see section
Scope of the document
).
In the whole document the word “card” means “contactless smart card”.
Authentication process
The authentication process consists in verifying the identity provided by a person, by
comparison of a personal data with the reference personal data of this person.
It means that at the beginning of the process, the person provides his identity and the
authentication process verify it. At the end of the process, the identity is either
confirmed (authenticated), or not confirmed (not authenticated).
This mode doesn’t compare the user’s data to the data of several users: it compare the
data provided by the user with the reference data provided by the same user during
enrollment phase.
Access control by authentication
To provide his identity, the user presents his personal identity card, which contains his
identifier. This action starts the authentication process.
Figure 24: Contactless card presentation starts authentication process
The user’s card must contain the user’s identifier and optionally the biometric data of
the user.
The terminal performs the required identity checks using the data read on the user’s
card, and if required, data stored in the internal database.
