The idea of a Universal Personal Code that gives normal users access to identity verification is a very good idea. But like most good ideas it needs a forcing function to justify the change in behavior.
BEHOLD! Our Forcing Function has arrived! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-silences-some-verified-accounts-after-wave-of-hacks-idUSKCN24G32Q >From the ashes of Twitter a stronger internet shall arise :) -Ben On 5/5/20 9:19 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: This is EU wide since at least 2014/2015. I remember getting it issued by the post office a long time ago, probably around 2010 or sooner. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/trust-services-and-eid It allows notary quality document, encryption, transmittal, signing and personal authentication. Good enough for courts, banks, property transactions, police, almost any legal secure and verifiable government/citizen/business communication. It also comes with electronic post box, AKA funny looking encrypted webmail. Tomas On Tue, May 5, 2020, 10:42 John Sechrest <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: I think that a true digital identity is one of the enabling technologies that will transform much of our lives. The Estonian E-residency provides a path to having a validated digital identity. having community based ID systems struggle with a model to keep them financially viable. So having some mechanism where the ID process is secure and unique is important. It sounds like you have a tool that might be helpful for that. Have you explored Estonian E-residency? Singapore and India and the UN are starting to apply that model. And Estonia has been pushing the idea across Europe. I would love to have my Drivers license be the foundation for a digital id. If you like, I can introduce you to someone who help build the X-Road that is one of the back end technologies to support the Estonian Digital Government. I now believe that internet based conversations (like Youtube comments, Twitter or faceboo) should be backed by a verified digital ID, so that when the trolls start trolling, they get blocked permanently. Anonymous posting is a substrate for troll infection. So meaningful hardware to support a real Digital ID is important. Let me know if you want to do this talk as a Youtube/zoom talk. On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:04 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: Would it be possible to create a universal personal code? I mean not part of a corporation like Google, or a nation, like the USA. It would have to be run by a totally independent organization, one that everyone trusts implicitly. Years ago, I had a business account at Pacific Continental Bank (now merged with Columbia Bank). I visited the Beaverton branch perhaps two or three times a year. At least two employees would greet me with my first name when I walked in. There are people with the skill of recognizing tens of thousands of individuals on sight. Combine that skill with vetting and training, and you have the core of an "identification company", whose mission is to verify your identity, and authenticate you to others. It would be too easy to hack online without the F2F component, but this could be a two step process, where the people at the service identify you, then implant a chip that can (indirectly) identify you by private-key- signing a transaction. I'd combine that with another device that visually or sonically indicates that your imbedded chip is being accessed. Of course, the chip signature and associated online information should be changed frequently; the chip might contain hundreds of digital keys, externally changeable with yet another digital programming key. For ordinary commercial and personal tasks, this would be a "nice to have"; for an emergency room doctor needing access to patient records Right Now Only, it could be a literal lifesaver. In any case, something you are, something you have, and something you know ... and NOBODY ELSE KNOWS, /not/ the name of your grade school ... are three good ways to identify you. Somebody skilled at knowing YOU would be a good fourth way, and how we've identified each other for millenia. Full disclosure: for decades, I licensed a technology for large dense arrays of truly random, permanent bits. With modern silicon processes, tens of megabits of random bits in an area smaller than the cross section of a hair. The bits can be permanently sequestered from external observation; one of our clients used the technique to encrypt physical fingerprints in hardware. Now that the patents have expired, it is open technology, so perhaps I should present it to a silicon equivalent of PLUG. 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