Re:Our entire credit bureau system is broken
by Simon_says on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:53AM
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If the feds are signing the card, then they have the private key. Let the individual be the only one who knows their private key, and let the feds sign an attestation that the individual's public key corresponds to a particular person.
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Re:Our entire credit bureau system is broken
by cm2187 on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:07AM
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I can't ask my grand mother to know a private key. A physical document, if unforgeable, will do just fine. At the end of the day, all an ID card does is to outsource authentication to the government, which will do that regularly (every 5 to 10y) and issue an authentication token (the ID card) for third parties.