Apple Introduced Digital ID in Apple Wallet

There was a post from trailofbits blog recently about how passport crypto works. Kind of related here.

I wonder if this is some zero knowledge proofs here or what? Reading the passport and its chip implies some terminal authentication capabilities coming from Apple devices. Passport would not allow reading sensitive data from the chip unless the terminal is valid.

Another question is if Apple is allowed to read your biometric data?

> Reading the passport and its chip implies some terminal authentication capabilities coming from Apple devices

They’ve had some form of this for ages with Apple Pay

I still find it bonkers reading passport doesn't validate it against it some centralised database. Like, $1 in your bank account and a credit card is more advanced than a passport.

Sorry I was meaning to say "passport terminal" capabilities which would require a cert to be issued by a country whose passport chips you want to read. Well maybe they had this for a while but AFAIK you could not read passport details with an apple device before