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If we had key pairs, why would we need a national ID system?
by rgrieselhuber 7y ago
If we had key pairs, why would we need a national ID system?
- pjc50 7y agoWhat verifies the keypair-person mapping? PGP "web of trust"?
- rgrieselhuber 7y agoEach organization can choose how they want to validate a person’s keys.
- pjc50 7y ago.. which is fairly pointless, because the whole reason organisations use things like SSN in the first place is delegating verification to someone else. Trying to do the whole thing in the private sector would result in everyone using Equifax as a "private key verification service".
- strbean 7y agoPresumably one of those organizations would be the federal government...