Re: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:37:36 PDT, Robert Slade said:
> There is no possible way this could potentially go wrong, right?
>
> http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf

You forgot these two:

If everybody has one certified identity,

a) How do you protect it?  Both "private key stored on the computer" and
"password sent to the certifying system" aren't very secure if the user's
computer is one of the 150 million compromised systems. Other systems, like
smart cards, assume that standardized smart card readers are ubiquitous...

b) What recourse does somebody have if their certified identity is stolen?

Oh, I forgot - this is a "Strategy" and they have no fscking clue how
they'll make it work....

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