摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a method of verifying the authenticity of an identity document (10), said identity document embedding a chip (11), said chip (11) storing a secondary certificate, said secondary certificate containing an identifier of a primary certificate,
comprising the steps of:
- reading (100) said chip (11) of said identity document (10), and
- extracting (110) said secondary certificate from said chip, and storing said secondary certificate in a memory. It is essentially characterized in that it further comprises the steps of:
- extracting (120) said identifier from said secondary certificate,
- searching (140) said identifier in a database (40), each identifier recorded in said database being associated with a corresponding level of trust, said database (40) not recording the primary certificate corresponding to said secondary certificate, and
- retrieving (150) from said database the level of trust corresponding to said identifier.</p> |