identity-idp

Whatever will replace SSNs will be a piece of technology. Ideally, something that uses public/private key encryption. There's a lot of things that use public/private keys however, or security tokens, or whatnot. Should it be a smartphone app? A hardware dongle? Etc. etc. If a hardware dongle, which one? As such, its the Executive Branch's job to research the various technologies, and implement a new standard to solve the online identity problem. ---------- For example, 18f (White House's crack website team) has the following: https://login.gov/ Github code here: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp If single-sign on were widely deployed across US Agencies (and tied to financial services / private sector banks), we'd be in a way better place. In any case, this is clearly the realm of the Executive Branch. Specifically 18f probably should co