AADHAR TECHNOLOGY Gurneet Kaur, Nitin Mangal

What is Aadhar?  Unique Identification Number linked to a person’s demographic and biometric information.  Mission is full enrolment of all Indian residents, with special focus on poor and under privileged.  One of the main aim is to improve service delivery to the poor.

What problem Aadhar solves?  Existing identity databases are laden with problems of fraud and duplicate entries.  Aadhar will prevent this by ensuring proper information verification.  Suitable measures will be taken to include people lacking identification documents.

Aadhar Architecture

Entities & Roles  UIDAI  Will develop Aadhar database initially  Will provide standards to be followed  Registrars  Operate to provide enrolment services  Eg. Dept in state govt, banks, telephone companies  Enrolment agency  Provide necessary conditions for enrolment of residents  Collect demographic data prior to enrolment drive

Entities & Roles  Introducer  Authorized by UIDAI or Registrar  Mechanism introduce to allow for missing documents  Typically officials, school teachers, aanganwadi folks  Resident  Indian national who wishes to obtain UIDAI

Features  Enrolment on proper verification  Demographic and biometric information  Central ID Repository (CIDR)  A central UID database will be maintained  Leverage existing infrastructure  Partner with agencies to act as ‘Registrars’ who will issue Aadhar after connecting with CIDR

Features (contd)  Online authentication  Provide way for agencies to compare data with CIDR  Resident privacy  All transactions with CIDR result only in ‘Yes’ or ‘No’  Security  Aadhar database will use latest security features

Network Security  Sensitive data flows over the network between the registrars and the UIDAI  Data encrypted using the public key provided by the registrar.  Registrar maintains the pair securely.

De-Duplication  Comparison using biometric data (iris and ten fingerprints) – only one chance to enter database.  Enormous computing power needed – large “grid” of networked computers will be used.  Complex algorithms to quickly compare biometrics have been procured from specialist vendors.

Application hosted in CIDR  Enrolment – serves client enrolment request  Authentication – identity authentication services  Fraud Detection – misrepresentation of information  Administrative – user management, role, access  Analytics and Reporting – statistics, aggregate level  Information – information about the system  Contact Center – query the database  Logistics – data, printing

UBCC  UIDAI Biometric Centre of Competence  To design biometric systems that enables India to achieve uniqueness in the national registry  UBCC will specify initial biometric systems and enhance features at regular intervals  Constantly innovate to push the state of the art in biometrics to achieve UIDAI’s objectives.