Weeks after the informal announcement, the Taiwanese National ID
smartcard break is finally getting press. It is a great example of
a piece of certified crypto hardware that works poorly because
of bad random number generation.
Good explanation for your technical but not security oriented friends
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11307-2005Mar29?language=printer
The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
Much as I Hate It, We Need a National ID
By Lamar Alexander
Wednesday, March 30, 2005; Page A15
The House recently passed legislation requiring states to turn 190 million
On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:53, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Do we need a national ID card?
The comment period on NIST's draft FIPS-201 (written in very hasty
response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12) ends
tomorrow. The draft, as written, enables use of the card by Smart
IEDs
- Original Message -
From: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID
The solution then is obvious, don't have a big central database. Instead
use
a distributed database
that it isn't national ID, because national
ID is disfavored by the public. But it's the same thing in
distributed-computing clothes.
The reason they say it isn't a national ID is because it's 50 state
IDs (plus US territories and Canadian provinces and Mexican states) --
but the new part
Although I am against any national ID, at least as far terrorist
identification goes (note that the Social Security Number that every
American has IS a national ID card), I feel that a discussion on how to do
it properly is a worthwhile endeavor.
- Original Message -
From: Peter Clay
it - then don't do it that way.
I am still trying to figure out how over a decade of terrorist bombings
in mainland UK didn't justify introducing a national ID card - but the
americans wanting biometric passports for visitors does
On Mon, 31 May 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
in most European countries, people carry national ID's as a matter of
course. And pressure is mounting in America for some kind of security card.
Similarly, there is a push for ID cards in the UK at the moment. See
http://www.stand.org.uk/ and
