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Re: Do We Need a National ID Card?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Wed Dec 22 13:05:48 2004
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:13:05 -0600
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:53, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> Do we need a national ID card?
The comment period on NIST's draft FIPS-201 (written in very hasty
response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12) ends
tomorrow. The draft, as written, enables use of the card by "Smart
IEDs" and for improved selection of kidnapping victims.
One cabinet department's Associate CIO for Cybersecurity said of this
project, "Eventually this is going to lead to a national ID card."
Refs:
http://csrc.nist.gov/piv-project/
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/hspd-12.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/draft-FIPS_201-110804-
public1.pdf
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