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the average american, even educated and talented ones, have absolutely no serious understanding what keypairs are, or why they need to take care of them i also
by red-iron-pine 1mo ago
the average american, even educated and talented ones, have absolutely no serious understanding what keypairs are, or why they need to take care of them
i also have 0 trust in the USG's ability to not lose those, either through hacking or through blatent corruption a la DOGE, et al
- ethagnawl 1mo ago> the average american, even educated and talented ones, have absolutely no serious understanding what keypairs are, or why they need to take care of them You're right. Since a few others have said as much, I was sketching an outline and not suggesting handing people literal RSA keypairs. Any practical, _usable_ solution would involve a physical card, mobile app, web app, etc.
- yencabulator 1mo agoI don't manage the data stored in my passport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport
- seniorThrowaway 1mo agoDoD (DoW whatever) has been running the CAC PKI infrastructure for over 20 years, and believe me a good deal of their three quarters of a million employees have no idea what PKI or keypairs are but use it to log into their workstation and do all sorts of online identity validation every single day. https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/ https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/ I'm not saying the gov is competent in general btw, but they are actually far better about this area than private industry, in my direct experience.