It has a chip based on the technologies of electronic signature, smart card and biometrics, and initially incorporates four software applications: the first identity eMRTD ICAO, the second digital signature PKI, the third biometric authentication by fingerprint Fingerprint Match-on-Card and a generic type room that includes data storage and Counter devices.

Peru's identity cards can be used as travel documents to enter the Mercosur members (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) and associated countries (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador; except Guyana, Suriname, Panama).

At the beginning, these systems were only intended for the accounting of births and deaths, to later become more complex to record all civil acts and provide the population with an identity document.

The records included births and deaths for each month, taxes paid to the Inca each year, specifying each household that did so, as well as the totality of people who went to war and died.

After the independence of Peru had taken place, the State took charge of these functions, delegating in the first phase those responsibilities to the prefectures, subprefectures and governorates.

22379", stamp and signature of the registrar, the fingerprint printing, and the seal of the Identification Record of the National Jury of Elections on top of the photograph.

Among its security measures was the inscription in salmon color with letters in miniature the text "National Elections Jury", number of the Electoral Record on the cover, signature of the inscribed, seal and signature of the registrar, stamp of the National Elections Board on top of photography and fingerprint.

The contemporary National Document of Identification (nicknamed DNI) created in 1997 in its modified version in 2005 In 1993 the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) was created as an autonomous body of the State in charge of registering births, marriages, deaths, divorces and others that modify marital status.

In 1996 to 1998 the Mechanized Electoral Record (LEM) was created, a transitory document but whose information was already typed by computerized means, there being no data that was manually entered.

The ID of minors serves to ensure access to health, education, food and security services for Peruvian children and adolescents.

In 2013 the Electronic ID was implemented, a document that has a chip and allows citizens to identify themselves on the Internet and "make transactions with the State from any point of access to the network, for example, from the comfort of their home."