https://yanqian.github.io/tags/national-digital-identity/Recent content in National-Digital-Identity on Armstrong YanHugoenSun, 21 Jun 2026 18:32:34 +0800https://yanqian.github.io/posts/publish/why-singpass-becomes-national-trust-infrastructure/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:32:34 +0800https://yanqian.github.io/posts/publish/why-singpass-becomes-national-trust-infrastructure/<p>At first glance, Singpass looks like a login system.</p> <p>You open a government website, click &ldquo;Log in with Singpass&rdquo;, scan a QR code, approve it on your phone, and continue. From the user&rsquo;s point of view, the experience is simple. It feels like a national version of &ldquo;Sign in with Google&rdquo;.</p> <p>But if we design such a system from first principles, it quickly becomes clear that login is only the visible tip of the system.</p>