One of the reasons The International Civil Aviation Organization introduced the electronic system of Passport is to put an end to the menace of the constant tampering of the personal information printed on the passport booklet, and passport photographs as well by criminals and fraudsters.
To achieve this, a chip is introduced for the booklet. But it doesn't end there because if the chip is not closed and protected, criminals can still have access to the chip and tamper with information encrypted in the passport chip.
In this era of global and cross border terrorism, some advanced technology have become cheap that terrorists and criminals can afford them to undermine state and sovereign border security and peace.
So the International Civil Aviation Organization introduced a unique Public Key Infrastructure that can put a signature and digital seal of the issuing state in the passport chip.
They also introduced a standard and criteria for decrypting and authenticating these digital credentials so that Countries at their borders can recognize and validate every authenticated epassport while those that cannot be validated are questioned.
This, they called CSCA, or Country Signing Certificate Authority. In other words, they expect every State that signs its passport to have or be its own CA with the details furnished to ICAO for auditing and certification as a recognized ICAO eMRTDs Certificate Authority.