I just discovered that the tax authority Skatteverket in Sweden issues national ID cards to "people registered for population purposes in Sweden" since June 2009. So not only citizens, but all registered residents.
This is not such a big deal in itself, all the banks and the Police also issue national ID cards. Many bank cards are smart cards and also come with a certificate from one of a handful of CAs participating in the "e-legitimation" program. They can be used for various governmental interaction and in some cases also for bank interaction. The Police issues the NIDEL card, which also shows citizenship and is valid for travel within Schengen. NIDEL is a smart card which can be loaded with certificates but it is issued without e-legitimation. (Stupid!) There is a cumbersome special procedure and code neccessary when applying for a certificate that should be stored on the card. The details are available in Swedish. The tax authority card on the other hand comes preloaded with an e-legitimation from Telia. Is there a matrix anywhere for the swedish e-leg cards? I'd like to see that. (Some of the e-leg CAs might issue an x509 file for download, but I only managed to enroll with the Telia CA with substantial effort (they require Firefox which I don't use) and when I actually managed to get an e-leg anyway I couldn't download it to my own card because it was locked inside the netid closed source soft token. Boo.) //Peter _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
