[rkagerer]

I would much prefer my government to take on responsibility for providing this sort of service

After witnessing enough leaks and hacks of government databases, this is one application where I'd favor a cryptographically secure, decentralized solution based on open-source code that's been competently audited to show the system keeps my sensitive info provably private.

Ideally something that's been in the wild under sustained and motivated efforts to hack it for long enough to convince me there's some substance to the claims.

[xboxnolifes]

Each government already has a complete list of all their citizens (probably multiple duplicated across various departments). Having the government have a service that provides temporary keys associated with an identity isn't much of an add toward security risk.