[OpenID - Eu] Republic of Lithuania goes OpenID

Nat Sakimura sakimura at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 06:59:43 UTC 2009


Wow, Congratulations!

It really is impressive. If there are more reading materials on it,
please let me know.

FYI, I am currently doing some study w.r.t. X.509 usage and
Authentication Protocols usages
in the world for the Japanese government.

=nat

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Artūras Orševskis <ao at secudo.lt> wrote:
> I've sent this message to Snorri few weeks ago, but since I have not
> heard from him, I decided to repost it here:
>
>
> My name is Arthur, althou I'm not an active OpenID EU member I
> believe in OpenID convenience and promote and convince people to use
> OpenID.
> I though you might be interested in news I have for you.
>
> Last year I did a presentation about OpenID for Lithuanian parliament,
> which led to two workgroups within Lithuanian ministry of Inferior
> (http://www.vrm.lt/index.php?id=124&lang=2) and Information Society
> Development Committee under the Government of Lithuania
> (http://www.ivpk.lt/main_en.php?cat=0). The result of these workgroups
> was a decission to implement support and merge OpenID into new
> Lithuanian Personal Identity Card
> (http://www.dokumentai.lt/en/pic.php).
>
> 8 months ago I prepared OpenID specification for Ministry of Inferior
> and today I can proudly present a new Lithuanian state Personal ID
> card (http://www.dokumentai.lt/atk.php) with digital certificate
> (x.509) and full OpenID 2.0 and PAPE extension support.
>
> That said, starting January 1st 2009 every issued Personal ID card has
> OpenID in it, backed up by personal digital certificate. National
> Sertificate Center under the Ministry of Inferior will be the national
> OpenID provider (https://openid.vrm.lt/). Provider service is currently
> in testing mode, it is not yet open to the general public, but it will
> go public anytime soon.
>
> Information on sites I mentioned here might be in Lithuanian language
> only, so should you have any questions - please do not hestitate to
> ask me.
>
> best wishes from Lithuania :)
> Arthur Orsevski
> SecuDO.lt CEO
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