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meiboyesterday at 4:42 PM1 replyview on HN

In multiple European countries, national ID numbers are public information that can be searched by name and address (i.e. Sweden)


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iknowstuffyesterday at 5:26 PM

I played with Estonia’s e-residency and they use asymmetric cryptography for everything so the ID is public but does nothing without the corresponding private key.