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In Norway there was/is a project that AFAIK originated around the National Lottery's need/desire for smart-card backed digital transactions: https://www.buypass.no/bruker/buypass-id/buypass-smartkort

It's a little unclear to me what the current status is: apparently it's valid for the National (Tax etc) Portal (altinn.no - literal translation: (hand)ineverything.no)). The basic idea was that the Postal service already allow the sending/delivery of registered letters -- so why not just use that for validating the ID. These days mail is largely handled by supermarkets -- and my impression is that the ID check isn't as reliable as it used to be when the postal service operated as a government monopoly.

Anyway, AFAIK, it's still the closest thing we have to working, secure digital ID in Norway.




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