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		arvidj on April 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I long for the future where I can safely assume my... We use something like this called BankID[1] in Sweden to log in to banks and to several other governemental agencies. [1] http://www.bankid.com/en/what-is-bankid/

Zash on April 28, 2013 [–]

BankID is using pretty standard public key crypto with a custom API. http://wiki.fribid.se/ has some docs on how it works (in swedish).

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