1 Introduction
- This document's purpose is to collate information on security issues associated with online authentication, so the project team can come up with a number of security principles for presentation in a Cabinet paper in 2003.
- The online authentication project is tasked with developing an all-of-government framework (and potentially a 'solution') for online authentication to ensure government services delivered over the Internet are going to the right person and their privacy is protected.
- Electronic authentication is an essential part of the security infrastructure needed for the safe delivery of online government services. It uses personal information to ensure that the requested service is delivered to the intended person. Such a function is necessary for a number of e-government developments and to achieve the mission for the Internet to be the dominant means of enabling ready access to government information, services and processes.
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