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What certificate are you talking about? The document is your face
by sureIy 2y ago
What certificate are you talking about? The document is your face
- gruez 2y ago"Your face" doesn't tell border officials anything important about you. For that, you need a travel document with relevant biographical information (eg. name, date of birth), along with a picture of your face so they know who to associate that information with. Finally, to ensure that you can't make a fake document that looks like a real document, there's a PKI system where all the information on the document is digitally signed by the country issuing the travel document.
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- sureIy 2y agoThat's far down the line. The examples in the article just store the document data in national database. In both examples (Finland and Singapore) you register online before the trip and then still show up with your passport. Singaporeans just show up with their face because their face is already linked to their government ID, stored locally. This can be done by any country after pre-registering your regular passport. All of this is trivial to implement. There's still no mention of full digital validation.
- Muromec 2y agoWell, the thing is -- after doing the whole ICAO PKI into the passport (which already happened) and keeping the trace in the local government database somebody realised there is no point to issue an expensive unforgable paper copy of it, since the digital artifact bundled with it (theoretically) provides stronger security. So instead of issuing ICAO PKI into the paassport, you can just have a dumb app generating a QR code with it or A4 paper extract.
- mhandley 2y agoHow does that work for identical twins?
- Muromec 2y agoThe same way as it does now. The face is checked against the identity claim, not against the global lookup, which can't reliably work anyway.
- timewizard 2y agoSo there's no non-repudiation making it no different than a paper document.
- Muromec 2y agoSorry I can’t really parse the comment, but I do agree it’s no different from a paper document, because why would it?
- BurningFrog 2y agoIt's hard to think of any scheme that fully works for that, unless you mandate distinctive body modification like tattoos or scars.