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Explore the journey of Jaap Kuipers from student chip cards to leading the trust federations initiative, revolutionizing identity management in the digital era. Learn how strategic alliances and a U-turn approach have shaped a nationwide authentication service, benefiting education, healthcare, and business sectors. Discover the evolution of DigiD from chip cards to federated authentication, leveraging open-source software for broad support and secure infrastructure. Embrace the concept of freedom of choice, with multiple authentication options and levels of assurance for a seamless user experience in a federated model.
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“DigiD model”from studentchipcards to trust federationsa story Jaap Kuipers Stichting SURF kuipers@surf.nl EuroCAMP, Malaga, October 19 2006
attributes, acknowledgements • KPMG, IT auditor • Dutch government computer centre, head of IT audit and security • Rabobank, financial control computer centre • Sabbtical, IT in Africa • SURF Foundation, programme manager Identity management, trustfederations, standards • A lot of fun working together with SURFnet’s Bart Kerver, Klaas Wierenga, Maarten Koopmans, Ton Verschuren on IdM
Mission • A nationwide authentication service • (inter)national trustfederations
how ? • Look for strategic alliances • (Education with eGovernment, Healthcare, Business) • U-turn: help ourselves by helping others ( problem in eGov greater than in Education, others pay a fair share) • Education and research is not an island in the knowledge economy
shared interests there is a clear need for horizontal initiatives in the field of authentication, payment systems and security provide a ‘breakthrough environment’ From Rethinking The European ICT Agenda
History • 1996 Student chipcards, 15 MEuro later, lessons learned a hard way • Gigaport programme: pragmatic authentication with tools users already have (bankcards, SMS-OTP) • 2001 TrustSURF programme: from chipcard to authentication, to federations and standards • 2001 asked ECP.NL (eNetherlands group) to join the steering committee
History • 2002 A-Select software, freedom of choise • e-OK framework for definition of levels of trust: Basic, Middle, High • 2003 Government programme “an Other Government” 65% services online by 2007 • 18-6-2003 13h. seminar on Finread standard: notion of proportional security presented by National Manifesto Group • 2 weeks later demo of A-Select at Social Insurance Bank • building the National Authentication Facility (NAV) • 24-06-2004 A-Select Open source software (mandatory for use within eGov)
Growthpath PKI- government High Bank Chipkaart SMS-TANcode Middle SMS-passcode Password Low “ease of use” cost time AuthSP’s
History • 1-12-2005 NAV renamed to DigiD • Public libraries in federation with A-Select • 2006 350.000 users for MyStudent loan using A-Select with SMS-on time passwords • 2006 1,3 mln account, signing 500.000 taxforms • 2007 6,5 mln users planned, mandatory use for taxforms • authentication high on agenda
Parties involved Advisory board for A-Select open source: SURFnet Kennisnet (K-12 education) BKWI (Social security insurances) ICTU, (eGovernment) Interpay (Clearinghouse for banks) Diginotar (Digital Notary) En betrokkenheid van ABN AMRO, Rabobank, Openbare Bibliotheken, Alfa&Ariss
Healthcare • Academic hospital Leiden: Citrix with bankcards and RSA-calculator for strong authentication for home use • CIBG UZI PKI card ?
Businesses • DigiNotar (authenticatie serviceprovider and services) • ABN-AMRO Bank (authentication serviceprovider) • Rabobank (authenticatie serviceprovider) • Interpay • Postbank (SMS-TAN) is invited • Publishers • Software leveranciers (software vendors)
Results • Open source, standards based Federated IdM • broad support for A-Select open software • U-turn worked well for Dutch education • Sharing of IdM knowledge over all sectors • open infrastucture for Education, Government, Healthcare, Business
The offer • Ease of use better security • Freedom of choise passwords, tokens, passwords-via-SMS, bank, PKI certificate, IP-adres and more • A migrationpath, no vendor lock-in less passwords, migrate to stronger authentication when necessary • Middleware, open source software, free • Levels of assurance( basic, middle, high) • Single sign-on • Federative model: authenticate local, act global