Entity Statement
Full Title or Meme
An Attestation statement about the Trusted Identifier of the Entity typically from a Federation Operator.
Preconditions
- The primary use case for the Entity Statement is a user navigating to the web site where they need be able to trust the site with their User Private Information.
Problems
- Best method for establishing trust with a web site today in the EV Cert which is designed to bind the web site to a real world entity.
Solutions
- Users can Authenticate in a manner that gives a Relying Party a consistent Identifier that can be sued from session to session without the need for sharing any User Private Information.
- To be fully compliant with the various Privacy legislation like the GDPR or the California legislation the Relying Party may first require that the user establish a channel back to the user for the performance of required Redress and Recovery operations.
- Only then should the Relying Party be in a position to request additional Attributes from the User.