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RE: Blockchain and Digital Signatures - In Laymen's Tems
Great post, digital signatures are still not implemented as they should indeed. The country I live in has a government issued online ID, with which you can luckily sign a lot of stuff online, but still lacks the safety/proof-ability as you described here.
Thanks for the @chessmasterhex, this is very interesting information. I would love to discuss the online id in more detail. From which country are you If I may ask? Is the online identity decentralized or centrally managed?
I am from the Netherlands, and the digital id is called DigiD. It is government issued but it is not issued by default. I have been checking the site and I can't find how it is hosted, but if my memory serves well, they host it on a single point.
You can use it to apply for the University(no other way if you are Dutch), healthcare(not all require it, but health care is regulated here, and distributed in smaller segments(companies)), wellfare and other things you can apply for are able to be done through this, drivers license business and some stuff I probably do not know.
The security is rather good if you compare it to all things out there on the web, it requires you to 2FA with sms. The weird thing is that you do not have to use sms for all the things, which is quite strange(you can enable it to be required always).
That is about what I think you want to know about the system, if something is unclear or you want to know more, don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you for the information @chessmasterhex. I love this type of conversations, as I believe all governments should have something like this. We still have a standard ID document in South Africa. Everything is Manual and there is a lot of corruption and Identity theft . It is actually ridiculous.
It can be revolutionary if your digital online ID is built on a private blockchain managed by your government.
That sounds like a horrible practice. They should probably make a system to fix that, even if it is not based on blockchain, it should still cut back on ID theft.
Isn't there like a government official who is in charge of stuff like this?
This is Africa and like they always say Africa is a tough country :) There is probably somebody in charge but everything here is very slow. We are still a 3rd world country, full of corruption. I do not want to generalize, but it is very difficult to get anything done right from a government perspective.
I once met someone from Africa telling me exactly the same, governments are corrupted. That is too bad. One can only hope that it is going to change.
It will change, but it will take many generations :(
That is too bad.