- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:11:05 +0100
- To: WebID XG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
- Cc: Martin Gaedke <martin.gaedke@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
In Monday's teleconf Martin Gaedke pointed out gaedke: regarding electronic IDs, there is something going on in Germany ... also in other countries ongoing <webr3> like the US too <gaedke> http://www.epass.de/ <gaedke> http://www.personalausweisportal.de/ I found the technical details here http://www.personalausweisportal.de/cln_102/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Technik_Flyer.html?nn=830460 As I understand these card work with a public key infrastracture. The CA is certificate is a Card Verifiable Certificates ISO 7816, and the certificates for the qualified electronic signature are X509 certs. It will require client software that supports the eCard-API, and an eID server. These are defined here www.bsi.bund.de. 1. BSI TR-03110 EAC und PACE 2. BSI TR-03112 eCard-API 3. BSI TR-03127 Architektur 4. BSI TR-03130 eID-Server Perhaps the picture here helps https://www.bsi.bund.de/ContentBSI/Publikationen/TechnischeRichtlinien/tr03112/index_htm.html Not sure how international these standards are, or how open. It would be intresting to see if browsers can interact with these cards, if they contain an X509 certificate, and if these could contain a WebID. Henry Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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