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Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by junga on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:09PM (#36143569)
You must either own an ID card or a passport. This means having an ID card is optional. Does the German passport have a unique identifier as well? (never owned one) The tax number otoh is assigned at birth.
Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by flocked on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:18PM (#36143699)
Yes it has a unique ID
Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by usr1106 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:22PM (#36143781)
Which changes whenever you get a new passport. Not what we would call a primary key in database design.
Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by Symbiote on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:04AM (#36148613)
And a person can have more than one German passport
Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by usr1106 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:10AM (#36151244)
With a strong motivation yes, just for fun no.

One motivation is that you want to travel to Israel and to some Arab country, which do not accept passports with stamps of the "enemy" in it.

I don't know if they verify the motivation in any way or whether it's enough to say so.

Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by h4ckerle on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:24PM (#36154401)
There are (according to the BMI[1] (German interior ministry)) only two reason to have multiple passports: The first being the one you stated and the second being multiple (visa requiring) travels in a short enough timeframe so that your passports would have to be lying at the foreign countries embassies/consulates at the same time.

Seems like motivation enforcement is quite strict, as they do state that you can't even get two passports for the "enemy visa" reason when the visits are just planned, but you can't prove it yet (palne tickets etc.) you won't get it, and you'll have to go to the German embassy after you can prove it...

[1]https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/faqs/DE/themen/moderne-ve...

Re:You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID by lxgr on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:28PM (#36145248)
One of the two tax number systems is, yes :)

There’s also another one which changes every time you move across financial administrative districts.