As we are dealing with e-passports in one of our courses, we got to read some very interesting and quite shocking literarure.

I highly recommend everyone to read these ones:
1. The Evolution of RFID Security (take this as an introduction to RFID in general), link
2. Protection Profile for Machine Readable Travel Documents – Basic Access Control (BAC), link
3. Advanced Security Mechanisms for Machine Readable Travel Documents – Extended Access Control (EAC), link
4. E-Passport: The global Traceability or How to Feel Like an UPS Package (now it gets interesting), link
5. Security and Privacy Issues in E-Passport (personal favourite), link