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There's almost no point of client certs for consumers without smart cards. Malware can steal your certs. People lose them or delete them or don't sync them. Ca
by elchief 11y ago
There's almost no point of client certs for consumers without smart cards. Malware can steal your certs. People lose them or delete them or don't sync them.
Can we not devise a system to use our existing bank cards (with chips on them) to store client certs too?
- pfg 11y agoInterestingly, that's already kind of available in some countries. I live in Austria, where we have a system called Bürgerkarte which utilizes PKI. One of the supported options are ATM cards (others being public health insurance cards, mobile phones or "real" smart cards). Unfortunately, it's not very widely used and quite complicated to set up. This would definitely need to be an international effort to become viable.
- noinsight 11y agoExactly, e.g. Estonia has ID cards with smart card functionality. https://e-estonia.com/component/electronic-id-card/ https://e-estonia.com/component/electronic-id-card/
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