by mensetmanusman on 6/1/2021, 11:21:30 AM
by gglnx on 6/1/2021, 11:20:07 AM
This will be same for the European Union Green Certificate (DGC): https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/covid-19_en
The German app and implentation will be on GitHub too: https://github.com/Digitaler-Impfnachweis
by imrehg on 6/1/2021, 11:05:06 AM
The inoculation certificate validity is currently 180 days since the last jab (looking at the slide deck in the repo). That seems super short. Will people really need 2 courses of jabs each year (that is 4 jabs with most current vaccines)?
by tick_tock_tick on 6/1/2021, 10:49:21 AM
Seems complex for something that probably never going to see any real use.
by varanauskas on 6/1/2021, 2:38:10 PM
I recently did a write up [1] of the Lithuanian vaccine certificate after finding a flaw on it.
What impressed me was that the verification was done fully offline in a privacy preserving way
[1] https://tadas.varanauskas.lt/posts/forging-lithuanian-vaccin...
by h0nd on 6/2/2021, 6:52:11 AM
Whereas the technological aspect and questions are very interesting, this certificate has the sole purpose to divide the people.
I am devastated to see this coming.
by cm2187 on 6/1/2021, 1:41:26 PM
Will there be an international format for vaccine certificates or are border controls expected to implement every certificate format for every issuing country for incoming travellers?
by h0nd on 6/1/2021, 1:44:16 PM
I am from Switzerland and I would like to be certified to be free of anxiety disorder regarding Covid.
by nnx on 6/1/2021, 10:59:45 AM
Absolutely terrible for privacy to use a client-server architecture for this.
Why can't this be purely client-validated like passport chips?
From the G7 agenda reporting:
“ Last Friday morning, during an interview on Good Morning America, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration was taking “a very close look” at the possibility of vaccine passports for travel into and out of the United States.
However by Friday afternoon the Department of Homeland Security was clarifying Mayorkas’ statement. The DHS says there won’t be any federal vaccination database nor any mandate that requires people to get a single vaccination credential. It also said there are no plans for anything like a U.S. passport.”
The U.S. is suspicious of many types of documentation. E.g. none needed for voting in many areas, etc. The culture tends towards erring on less bureaucracy.
If more states ban covid-passports, I wonder if the EU would rather not have tourists than allow visitations.
Once there is a vaccine surplus, the vast amount of risk is on those who decide out of their own volition to not get vaccinated, at which point society can’t hold their hands anymore.