We missed this earlier: The Unique Identification Authority of India on May 20 put out a draft "Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Regulations, 2021," for public comment on its website. The draft is out for comment until just June 2, giving people hardly two weeks to respond. The Software Freedom Law Center, India urged the UIDAI to reconsider the deadline. We have reached out to a UIDAI spokesperson for comment on if they'd consider an extension, and will update this post if we hear back. The draft regulations, available here, include references to something called Aadhaar Number Capture Service Tokens or ANCS Tokens, which Aadhaar watcher Srikanth Lakshmanan said resembles OAuth, an authentication standard used on many websites. Lakshmanan also noted that in a first for the government, offline authentication of Aadhaar was being recognized. What the rules say Types of authentication: Authentication can be Yes/No, in which "the identity information and Aadhaar number securely submitted with the consent of the Aadhaar number holder through a requesting entity, is then matched against the data available in the CIDR, and the Authority responds with a digitally signed response containing “Yes” or “No”, along with other technical details related to the authentication transaction, but no identity information." The other is e-KYC, which is carried out via OTP or biometrics. Types of offline verification: Offline verification can be done by QR code (with yet-unpublished specifications); "Paperless Offline e-KYC" (again without specifications as of yet); e-Aadhaar verification; and paper-based verification, which is just collecting a printout…
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