White House preparing national Internet identity authentication plan

The White House plans to reveal June 25 a strategy for verifying the online identity of Internet users, said cyber czar Howard Schmidt, speaking June 22 during a Washington, D.C. conference.

"I want to make sure that the computer on the other end knows that it's me that's interacting with it," he told audience members of the Symantec Government Symposium 2010.  To that end, the White House will unveil a strategy for public comment called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The strategy will not limit itself to creating authenticated identities for federal employees.

"We need to figure out how we get those things to work at the national level," Schmidt said.  National identity authentication will be voluntary and must take into consideration privacy concerns, Schmidt also said.

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Submitted by: E. Charles Sterling