A Concept for Universal Identification

The goal of this paper is to provide a detailed look at a new perspective for a unified, secure and consolidated form of personal identification. The advanced yet inexpensive technology exists today to step up modern identification to the next level. The combination of various forms of authentication with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can yield a versatile yet secure form of access to most anything requiring a key. Inexpensive smart cards with built in fingerprint readers are available, providing the secure storage of a smart card with a quite secure form of biometric authentication. Applications requiring increased security and authentication can use relatively inexpensive retina or iris scanners.