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Blockchain Usage for Government-Issued Electronic IDs: A Survey

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Government IDs are traditionally plastic cards or paper-based passport booklets, sometimes with machine-readable contactless chips. Even though advanced implementations with cryptographic capabilities and online interfaces have been introduced, adoption and usage for online identification remain low. At the same time, there is a recognized need for trusted identities on the Internet, in Know-Your-Customer and Anti-Money-Laundering processes, and also in emerging blockchain-based, decentralized ecosystems. The contribution of this paper is a thorough analysis of the opportunities and state-of-the-art at the intersection of blockchain technology and government-issued electronical identity documents (eIDs), including existing implementations and pilots.

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Moritz Stumpf provided additional insights to the Estonian eID landscape.

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    Michael Kuperberg, Sebastian Kemper & Cemil Durak

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Kuperberg, M., Kemper, S., Durak, C. (2019). Blockchain Usage for Government-Issued Electronic IDs: A Survey. In: Proper, H., Stirna, J. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20948-3_14

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