Namecoin Passport for World Citizens, helping refugees

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virtual_master
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Namecoin Passport for World Citizens, helping refugees

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Many people over the world need to flee to save their live or for their freedom.
Namecoin as created for freedom could help them also.

We could take World Citizenship and World Passport as working model and improve it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
Why would we need a physical passport ? It has the disadvantage that it can be lost, confiscated or stolen.
It could be a Namecoin Passport based on Namecoin ID(with Bitcoin and Bitmessage) where you upload you data entries in encrypted form. By crossing the border you just say your Namecoin Passport ID and your password and you can be checked with it.
The namespace could be namecoinpassport for it.

We create the entries
namecoinpassport/n5xh8xfy0
passphotos/n5xh8xfy0

for
  • Passport number: n5xh8xfy0
    Nationality: Namecoinia (or World Citizen)
    Photo: n5xh8xfy0
    Name: Refugee Robert
    Date of birth(YYMMDD): 1988.03.11
    Place of birth: Eritrea
    Expiration date of passport: 2014.02.12
    Namecoin ID: refugeerobert7
    Bitmessage address: BM-BcbRqcFFSQUUmXFKsPJgVQPSiFA3Xash
    Bitcoin address: Hq4JYkMvptxd28T4zQdieggwQpoc2T6rU
    Namecoin address: N1G6Sz2597kKqpQbuWhUSm6mrZvgZGXzJe

1. Everybody could create his own passport entry with encrypted fields and photo.(if no possibility for the some individuals a humanitarian organization could create for free for them)
It would be recommended to create it in advance not only in an urgency situation.
2. Humanitarian organizations could be contacted so that they also ask governments to recognize the Namecoin Passport at least in case of humanitarian catastrophe situations(natural catastrophe or war).
Governments could say for example that they don't recognize it as standard passport but in emergency situations they do.
3. People in emergency with lost or confiscated physical passport could come to the border and ask for trespassing with their namecoin Passport.
They need to know only their ID and encryption password.(this could be also generated with a special brainwallet (chain) from a passphrase - ID, encryption password, bitcoin private key, namecoin private key)
4. The Bitcoin and Namecoin address could be used eventually to receive humanitarian help or to pay border fee.
5. It could be created an online template also which can be printed like a usual passport by anybody who needs a physical evidence of his identity.

What do you think about ?
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That's an interesting idea.

I wonder if we could get a list of data that is currently held in the RFID chips they are implementing in the new passports around the world these days? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

One of the advantages of having to produce a physical passport document to border authorities is that the document can be verified for it's authenticity.

It would be much easier to overhear and duplicate somebody's username/password if spoken verbally. Much easier than creating a forged passport document at least.

The border guard who interviews me could steal my identity...

...unless we encoded image data? Most passports are still black and white photos, which makes image data encoding smaller, but I doubt you could fit a passport-worthy-image inside 1kb of data.

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I very much like this idea.

A Stateless citizen existing primarily in the cryptocurrency economy travelling on a World Paasport is a legal, and now technical, possibility.

Just another example for the texit (tech-exit).

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Thank you for your feedback.
moa wrote:I very much like this idea.

A Stateless citizen existing primarily in the cryptocurrency economy travelling on a World Paasport is a legal, and now technical, possibility.

Just another example for the texit (tech-exit).
Yes. It could be at the beginning more an emergency passport recognized in special situations.
Some countries or autonomous regions could recognize it for touristic reasons.
Then may be more.
gigabytecoin wrote: One of the advantages of having to produce a physical passport document to border authorities is that the document can be verified for it's authenticity.

It would be much easier to overhear and duplicate somebody's username/password if spoken verbally. Much easier than creating a forged passport document at least.
Namecoin namespace entries cannot be changed only by those who owns the private key.
And in this aspect Namecoin Passports are secure like passports with RFID chips.
Digital identities have different weaknesses than physical ones. Somebody could spy it or you can forget it. But it cannot be stolen physically or confiscated or lost.
Physical passport with RFID chip can be read if somebody with a small scanner in the pocket is going too close to you and you didn't put it in a metallic box. So it is also not so secure.
gigabytecoin wrote: The border guard who interviews me could steal my identity...
He cannot steal your identity, only copy your data. But that he can do anyway even if you have a physical passport.
If he access to your personal data by reading on a paper or on the screen doesn't matter in this aspect.
He can hijack your Namecoin identity only if he has your private key corresponding to the public address on which the identity was registered. In that case he can change the photo or other entries. But the Namecoin blockchain keeps the protocol forever if that happens.
But to give the private key is not necessary for the authentication at the border.
You just need to give the Passport ID and your password which encrypts the field entries.
The password is also not necessary to be given to the border officer if there is a POS like device(like in the supermarket) where you enter your password and the border control will get only your personal data and photo on the screen.
gigabytecoin wrote: ...unless we encoded image data? Most passports are still black and white photos, which makes image data encoding smaller, but I doubt you could fit a passport-worthy-image inside 1kb of data.
1kB is too small at the moment for a photo but 5 kB is enough for a passport photo.
In the coming rebase it is intended the value field to be enhanced to 5k. (this is necessary primary for the 4k GPG key)
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virtual_master wrote:In the coming rebase it is intended the value field to be enhanced to 5k. (this is necessary primary for the 4k GPG key)
Really!? I had no idea. Is this going to be live once the hard fork passes on Dec 13th? Or once khal gets caught up rebasing the namecoin client?

There is an exhaustive list of what the USA deems a valid passport photo here: http://travel.state.gov/passport/pptpho ... _5333.html

Might come in handy?

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gigabytecoin wrote:
virtual_master wrote:In the coming rebase it is intended the value field to be enhanced to 5k. (this is necessary primary for the 4k GPG key)
Really!? I had no idea. Is this going to be live once the hard fork passes on Dec 13th? Or once khal gets caught up rebasing the namecoin client?

There is an exhaustive list of what the USA deems a valid passport photo here: http://travel.state.gov/passport/pptpho ... _5333.html

Might come in handy?
None of the actual clients contains this enhancement. Khal asked an enhancement to 9k so I am sure he will implement it also.

The USA will be the last state which will accept this passport anyway so their requirements are not relevant. But anybody can make a link in his online passport to his external photo-album(eventually to his facebook account).

Possible acceptance at the beginning:
- Emergency situations like war, natural catastrophe or mass of refugees from an oppressive regime.
- Touristic regions, small countries or ocean cruiser ships to attract attention and people.
- For online merchant, exchange, trading or banking authentication requirements.
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i was thinking that hash of the photo could be created for verification against a chip passport.

also we could encode our DNA into the namespace through a hash, so in the future all someone needs is to grab a sample plus some
biometric data, fingerprints, retinal eye scan all encoded into the namespace to prove your identity.

To verify someone is who they are, you just grab a sample and compare it to your personal blockchain for verification, identity authentication.

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virtual_master wrote:The USA will be the last state which will accept this passport anyway so their requirements are not relevant. But anybody can make a link in his online passport to his external photo-album(eventually to his facebook account).
True, but they're great when it comes to standardization.

You might not want people's selfies and bar shots serving as identification photos :P

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This is indeed a very interesting idea!

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FrictionlessCoin wrote:This is indeed a very interesting idea!
Thanks.
I thought also about to create a language Namecoinish to give him a more exotic character.
It could be a constructed full language like Esperanto, Ido, Volapük and Lojban or it could be just an exotic language like the Klingon language(with limited amount of words - just created for that purpose) to give more authority for the passport and the Namecoin document could be in double language Namecoinish/English. or it could be a kind of easy English with some exotic words and structure but still understandable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
The border between constructed languages and natural languages are not always sharp and they are cases when a constructed language became natural language(like the modern hebrew) or a natural language became a constructed language(medieval standard latin - constructed on top of the antic latin). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language
If intended as a full language then it should be created on top of a well known language(like English) with limited changes just to create an exotic character or an easy language(like Esperanto) because there is a lot of work to create a working full language.
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