[153732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Jun 11 14:49:24 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120611183546.50220.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:48:21 -0400
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:35 PM, John Levine wrote:
> OK, someone shows you a Quebec driver's license. You ask for a
> passport, she says, I don't have one, and points at the blue word Plus
> after the words Permis de Conduire at the top of the license. Now
> what?
Banks and most retailers actually have a book with photos and details of =
various security aspects of the license and ID cards in-use. For fun, I =
have presented my "Global Entry" ID card at the bank for a transaction =
to see if they had seen it before.
The US Federal Government tried to standardize on HSPD-12, now about 5 =
years old.
Making a secure document, or something that uses PKI such as this is =
harder than it may initially seem. This is why I'm not the one =
designing them.
- Jared=
