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In a new document, the White House has outlined its plan for strengthening authentication and identity verification on the Web.
The White House has published a draft of a strategy designed to make the concept of trusted identities and authentication more of a reality in the digital world.
In a 39-page document (PDF) entitled the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (NSTIC), the White House promotes what it calls the Identity Ecosystem, an interoperable environment where individuals, organizations, and devices can “trust each other because authoritative sources establish and authenticate their digital identities.”
The ecosystem will consist of three main layers – a governance layer that establishes the rules of the environment; a management layer that applies and enforces the rules of the ecosystem; and the execution layer that conducts transactions in accordance with the rules.
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