Those authorities often have grave responsibilities,
such as handling citizen identi?¬?cation, and hence
they experience great pressure to keep their system at a state-ofthe-
art security level. This simple fact, coupled with the fact that
the exclusive nature of their relationship grants those authorities
more freedom in the matter of user acceptance, is serving as a
powerful impetus for certi?¬?cate-based authentication
techniques.
Many countries are investing signi?¬?cant resources in the creation
of electronic IDs for their citizens; other institutions are
following suit, devising authentication schemas and electronic
counterparts of their traditional service cards. It is in the interest
of everybody to make such systems easy to use, and the ?¬?nest
professionals and resources are being dispatched on the problem.
Some might have reservations based on concerns about
privacy and choice. However, if in the end your country decides
that from now on you must use a certain technology for obtaining
your marriage certi?¬?cate, you better learn how to use the
system.
To be fair, the technology behind the electronic IDs is experiencing
a powerful boost also in other, less-constrained contexts;
as the failures of the password-based systems become more
evident, the need for exploring alternatives becomes more
pressing.
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