How to make a privacy-friendly national ID card

The edentiti approach fits in well with the PKI certificate approach to removing anonymity from the Internet. The difficulty with PKI is finding a good place to store PKI keys. Edentiti is a convenient place to store and manage private keys and can be done without the owner having to worry about them. They can be automatically used, updated, controlled and protected by the system.

Identity providers can detect phishing attacks and can make identity theft very, very difficult, if not impossible. Edentiti can be used to provide the information for ID cards. To get an ID card you go to an ID card provider - like the post office - establish your edentiti, then get an ID card produced.

Although it seems too good to be true, identity provider technologies can increase our privacy, yet still allow good identification via ID cards in those situations where it is needed.

Disclosure: The author is building Edentiti at www.edentiti.com which will be one of the world’s first independent identity providers.