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Re: A potential possibility of improvement of PKI for personal communications

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Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>:

> In countries like Germany each citizen has an identity card that is
> issued by the registration authority. Since the identity of a person
> is thus in a sense created by that authority, why not let it also to
> directly certify the public key of any citizen who desires to employ
> asymmetric encryption? I mean the person would on that occasion have
> his identity be once again checked by the authority (presumably much
> better, certainly not worse than, any common CAs) and then have his
> public key be entered (for a moderate charge) into a list of public
> keys that is freely accessible to the public at computer terminals of
> all offices of the registration authority. This way, the issue of
> trust on the common CAs (or their equivalents) could be avoided.

That's how they work in Finland — in theory:

   <URL: http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?id=21>

In practice, online identification is done through the Finnish banks'
commercial authentication system.

   <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUPAS>


Marko

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A potential possibility of improvement of PKI for personal communications Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-19 20:55 +0200
  Re: A potential possibility of improvement of PKI for personal communications Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-08-19 22:18 +0300

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