[avid-infovore]

The Republic of Estonia uses such a system to identify members of its e-Residency program, even with no physical presence. Each e-resident has a public numerical key that serves as a unique identifier, and a corresponding private key that is never revealed.

So an example to emulate then!

Except: Estonia suffered an embarrassing blow to its much-vaunted ID cards that underpin everything from electronic voting to online banking [...] a security risk that affects almost 750,000 ID cards and that would enable a hacker to steal a person’s identity.

https://www.ft.com/content/874359dc-925b-11e7-a9e6-11d2f0ebb...

[gbarc888]

The article only says they found a "security risk". I wonder what that is, and how it would allow identity theft if they are actually using public/private keys. Did Estonia secretly backdoor their encryption?

[unpwn]

Is there a link to this that's not behind a paywall. Very interested in understanding the flaws of such a system, as a 2 key system seems like the most viable and secure way to establish identity.

[taesis]

Google's cache of the page [1] seems to work.

[1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wP7nTG...

[avid-infovore]

Non-paywalled link: http://estonianworld.com/technology/possible-security-risk-a...

[mwg986]

If you search google using the url for the article and then follow the search link you can get behind the paywall. Here's a link to the google search result - https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fc...