11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
2:48 p.m.
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