In my experience, even when people ask NOT to print the RRN on the card, they still do.
And some more bad news. The RRN is not just on the chip, but it is part of the public key certificate.
So every time you use the E-id to authenticate yourself or to sign something, you have to pass along the public key certificate, which includes your RRN.
And I thought supermarket loyalty cards were bad!
Someone told me the use of the a unique identification number for people is against the constitution in Germany. So, hopefully the EU will harmonize e-id's in the future and make sure no unique identification number is used on it. The German constitutional court wouldn't look kindly on the whole thing otherwise. A serial number may be necessary, but that doesn't mean it should be the RRN.
The e-id card does have one major design flaw though: the certificate issued by the government linking your public key to your identity contains your National Registry Number (Rijksregister/Registre national).
This number is used in many governmental databases as primary key, so it's not a good idea to give it out to everyone. The law restricts the use of the National Registry Number by private citizens and corporations for data processing. But it would have been better not create the opportunity for abuse in the first place, by spreading around this number in by way of this certificate.
The academic world in Belgium has repeatedly pointed this problem out to the government, but to no avail.
Some cool graphs on the roll out of the e-id card in Belgium are availble here: E-ID page. The e-id is no longer an experiment, in theory at least 'analog' cards will no longer be issued.
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In my experience, even when people ask NOT to print the RRN on the card, they still do.
And some more bad news. The RRN is not just on the chip, but it is part of the public key certificate.
So every time you use the E-id to authenticate yourself or to sign something, you have to pass along the public key certificate, which includes your RRN.
And I thought supermarket loyalty cards were bad!
Someone told me the use of the a unique identification number for people is against the constitution in Germany. So, hopefully the EU will harmonize e-id's in the future and make sure no unique identification number is used on it. The German constitutional court wouldn't look kindly on the whole thing otherwise. A serial number may be necessary, but that doesn't mean it should be the RRN.
The e-id card does have one major design flaw though: the certificate issued by the government linking your public key to your identity contains your National Registry Number (Rijksregister/Registre national).
This number is used in many governmental databases as primary key, so it's not a good idea to give it out to everyone. The law restricts the use of the National Registry Number by private citizens and corporations for data processing. But it would have been better not create the opportunity for abuse in the first place, by spreading around this number in by way of this certificate.
The academic world in Belgium has repeatedly pointed this problem out to the government, but to no avail.
Some cool graphs on the roll out of the e-id card in Belgium are availble here: E-ID page. The e-id is no longer an experiment, in theory at least 'analog' cards will no longer be issued.