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The latest European standard for IDs is a credit-card sized of plastic with a chip in it. It should allow more security, because digital signature is harder to
by ILikeBikes 6y ago
The latest European standard for IDs is a credit-card sized of plastic with a chip in it.
It should allow more security, because digital signature is harder to forge than previous physical securities.
But also you could use them more easily in other countries, as it can be read by a computer, and not a human that speaks a finite set of languages.
Lastly, you could use them for authentication for various online and daily services, such as banking, taxes, creation of companies, digital signature,... that are said to save time on logistics.
- labawi 6y ago> digital signature is harder to forge than previous physical securities Yet there are countries running 3072-bit RSA on Infineon chips, because their 3K keys are least broken. Discovery also entailed country-wide certificate revocation, which IIRC happened days if not weeks after the flaws were public, while the law states a digital signature has the same bearing as a physical one.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI would still argue that the losses caused by this breach were less than what other countries using a paper-based system see on a regular basis, both due to malicious action as well as the mere overhead of said paper-based system.