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Obama's online trusted ID programme greeted with caution

Privacy advocates say assistants's plan is well intentioned by fraught with uncertainties

Jaikumar Vijayan By

Computerworld |

The Obama administration'south release of the final version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) was greeted on Friday with caution by privacy advocates who see information technology as a well-intentioned effort that is still years abroad from fruition.

The strategy, first appear last June, is designed to foster improve technologies, standards and policies for online authentication. The goal of NSTIC is to enable an identity ecosystem in which individuals and organizations are able to conduct online transactions with far more assurance and security than they are currently able to.

When fully implemented, the new identity infrastructure will allow Cyberspace users the option of obtaining trusted online identity credentials from a range of private service providers and from regime entities.

Instead of maintaining divide usernames and passwords for each website, Internet users would exist able to use a single set of identity credentials to proceeds access to services on multiple sites.

For example, a user would exist able to use a digital credential obtained from his Internet service provider, bank or university to securely access services at multiple other sites without having to first register at each one or having to divulge personal information to them.

Such a model is expected to be far more than convenient and privacy-friendly than current online authentication mechanisms.

NSTIC calls on the National Institute for Scientific discipline and Applied science to develop standards and technology polices for the new identity infrastructure. But it leaves it to the individual sector to do the actual development and deployment of the technology. Internet users will be gratis to decide for themselves whether they want to use NSTIC credentials for online transactions.

Andy Ozment, White House director for cybersecurity policy, and Howard Schmidt, President Obama's cybersecurity coordinator, touted NSTIC as a groundbreaking effort on Fri.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke described NSTIC every bit another example of the U.S. government helping to enable and back up private innovation at a critical juncture.

"Usernames and passwords are no longer skillful plenty" for protecting against identity theft and online fraud, Locke said. For the Internet to achieve its full potential, it's vital for the government and the private sector to work collaboratively to develop a new, secure and more privacy-friendly identity ecosystem, he said.

"We must practise more to help consumers protect themselves, and nosotros must make information technology more convenient than remembering dozens of passwords," Locke said.

However, meanwhile privacy advocates see the effort as a well-meaning one that is fraught with many uncertainties.

For ane affair, the kind of identity infrastructure envisioned by NSTIC is still several years away at to the lowest degree, said Aaron Brauer-Rieke, a fellow at the Heart for Democracy and Engineering science. "The strategy at this point is just a vision for the time to come," Brauer-Rieke said. "There is still a lot of work that has to happen."

The thought behind NSTIC is good only what'southward going to be vital is the kind of governance structure that is put in place around it, he said. NSTIC envisions a scenario in which a relatively modest number of entities volition provide the identity credentials used by millions of Cyberspace users to access Spider web services.

Proper rules governing the apply of such information is going to exist vital to ensure that providers of identity credentials and those consuming it practice not misuse the data, he said. "If the rules aren't written properly, information technology could upshot in privacy damage," Brauer-Rieke said.

Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that a lot of what is going on right now is at a very high and abstract level. "It's not perfectly clear how this is going forrad," he said.

In general, though, one major concern with the identity system as proposed is that information technology could cut down on user privacy as opposed to enhancing it, Tien said. "To some extent, when you make it easier for people to provide ID, you make it easier for people to enquire for information technology," he said.

Intendance needs to be taken to ensure that a situation is non created where users are asked to provide identities for scenarios were none is required now, he said. Without proper intendance, an identity credential of the sort envisioned under NSTIC volition actually enable more than tracking by credential providers and others than is possible today, Tien said.

The real question that will demand to be answered going forrad is, "How much identity will I need to bear witness to apply the Internet, to send electronic mail, to browse or to utilise Google?" Tien said. "In a trusted identity ecosystem, we would exist required to have an identity for more than and more of what we do on the Web, or nosotros won't be immune to do sure things."

Comprehensive privacy legislation will be needed to protect against the misuse of identity credentials by those who provide them, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Heart. "Online identity is a complex problem, and the adventure of 'cyber-identity theft' with consolidated identity systems is very existent," Rotenberg said.

Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy bug, fiscal services security and eastward-voting for Computerworld. Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed . His electronic mail accost is jvijayan@computerworld.com.

Jaikumar Vijayan is a freelance technology writer specializing in estimator security and privacy topics.

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