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The U.S. government is a very large user of PKI.

One is issued an identification card which is really a smart card ("common access card"[0]) with certificates on it and that is used for authentication.

PKI works but "it's too {hard|much trouble}" is a frequent excuse.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card



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