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DENNIS KÜGLER

Dennis Kügler is the head of the working group responsible for developing security specifications and designing public key infrastructures related to electronic identity documents at the Federal Office for Information Security. Since 2003 he has been participating as a government representative in the New Technologies Working Group of the International Civil Aviation Organization and actively contributing to international standardization at ISO.

THE NEW GERMAN IDENTITY CARDS

After many years of development, the New German Identity Card was introduced on the 1st of November 2010. Besides being just an ordinary identification token for government use, this identity card also provides privacyprotecting authentication on the Internet. Unique features, such as anonymous age verification, the selective disclosure of personal attributes and the automatic creation of unlinkable, service provider dependent, pseudonyms serve the needs of both citizens and Internet service providers. This presentation will give an overview on the features of the card and the infrastructure required. Furthermore, some real world use cases will be described.