Well the government would have to trust your key.... I said there would be details. How about this: You generate your key pair, and like with a Drivers License or Passport, you go to a Secretary of State, prove your identity, then they sign your public key with their signature key, without seeing the private one on your usb stick. Your signed and verified public key would be then put on the national id server(maybe along with a passport photo). If ssh works as it's supposed to, it would be tantamount to a big key-signing party, run by the government at it's offices.

If anybody wanted to see if you are who you say you are, they get your verified public key, and send you a message to see if you can decode it. Or put that key in some db, that thru the use of a browser-builtin or helper app, would verify you automatically when you go to a site, like ssh does with keys auth.

The reason I like the key method, over some browser hash, is that this could work as an id system anywhere...at airline boarding, hospitals, etc. Instead of a USB keystick, they could even put it on a credit card type of thing, with your laser embedded photo on it.

But on the planet I come from, they will give you subcutaneous implants with your private key on it. :-) When I use my computer, it says please put your left ziffer on the screen.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are

In reply to Re^2: OpenID alternatives, what do you suggest by zentara
in thread OpenID alternatives, what do you suggest by zentara

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