jtd wrote:
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 09:33 pm, Rony wrote:
So instead of starting from scratch, why not build a layer over the passport system that already has international validity, and have the passport authority as the National records keeper with properly defined responsibilities. That will save a lot of trouble.
That will still not solve the id verification problem. But at least you have the essential framework (save verification ) in place.
By verification, do you mean before issuing an ID or after that during its use for gaining access to facilities. Both are anyway possible. However we can have 2 levels of verification based on the security requirements, one fast for daily use, like latest photo, finger print... and one slow and detailed, like dna, blood test for criminal investigation purposes.
The need for dna is to eliminate verification and automate the process. although the matching process is very compute intensive at the moment it will improve as knowledge & code and computing power increases. The drawing of relationships can be automatic thus spoofing becomes almost impossible even with complete abscence of physical verification. As usual though the corner cases pointed out earlier will be a big spanner in the works. 25 to 30% of kids have biological fathers different from their legal fathers according to a UK study.
Instead of relating, can't a dna pattern be an independent id like a finger print?
On second thought In our case it will only cause embarassment but should not in any way affect the verifiability and authenticity.
Yeah. :)
Regards,
Rony.
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