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ilzolende comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 January 2015 12:29:04PM 1 point [-]

Giving people an official RSA keypair in their smartcard government IDs is fine. That solves all sorts of problems, and enables a bunch of really cool tech.

Requiring that every public key used in any context be registered with the government, or worse, some sort of key escrow, is a totally different matter.

Comment author: ilzolende 20 January 2015 12:25:25AM 2 points [-]

I was thinking less "everyone must register all their public keys, and you can't have a second identity with its own key" and more "everyone has to have at least 1 public key officially associated with them so that they can sign things and be sent stuff securely." And that Estonian system sounds pretty cool.