My claim is not that physical ID should work for SSO logins. I don’t even know what SSO means.
I will try to explain it, but if you don’t understand something I would suggest copy my message and ask an LLM to explain it better.
SSO Login (with Google):
As you can see here there is a Button called “Login with Google” that’s an SSO-Login.
if you now click on it you will be redirected to Google and forced to sign in.
If you now sign in into google you google account will be used to authenticate you on Grok. Grok itself gets your e-mail and a authentication token (similar to a session token), but no password or MFA information.
Google handles the data, security, identification, and authentication.
Grok handles authorization.
What is now the big benefit of SSO Logins like that? You don’t give Grok sensitive data in the Registration and Login process and Grok can outsource things.
What is the big benefit of SSO Logins inside an organization or government? You don’t need to have multiple logins for multiple services.
If we oversimplify it, it would look like this:
My claim is simply that if governments say that physical and digital IDs are equivalent and accepted in the same places, and it turns out not to be true, then they lied and were deceiving their constituents.
The problem lies that not everyone understands this and now what it is. So the goverment can’t just go here and say that this is an IDP. No one would understand it, so people try to explain it to the public with tangible examples that are not false or wrong, but if you look a bit deeper they aren’t good examples anymore.
Are digital IDs not digital documents ie digital versions of physical documents?
No they are not.
In other words they are digital records of physical records. Do you disagree?
Yes.
If you have questions, please just let me know.