Does digital identity need blockchain technology?
GOV.UK Verify's technical architect Adam Cooper shares his thoughts on whether services like GOV.UK Verify should be making use of blockchain technology.
Planning for the event of GOV.UK Verify being taken temporarily offline
"Having developed the service for security and availability we then plan for disaster" - Head of Operations, Liz Sarginson, shares how we deal with incidents that affect how users' experience of GOV.UK Verify.
The tools and systems that support GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify's service manager Stephen Dunn explains some of the tools and systems that support GOV.UK Verify, as well as those that help the wider federation to run smoothly and securely.
GOV.UK Verify: Technical delivery update, 21 December 2015
This blog post is for anyone interested in the technical development of GOV.UK Verify. In our first technical delivery update we explained that there are 3 parts to GOV.UK Verify and the delivery team is responsible for building and maintaining …
GOV.UK Verify: Technical delivery update, 7 December 2015
This blog post is for anyone interested in the technical development of GOV.UK Verify. There are 3 parts to GOV.UK Verify: the hub (which allows communication between the user, the certified company, and the service on GOV.UK); the certified companies’ …
How the GOV.UK Verify technical architecture protects users' privacy, and why it's appropriate
When we designed the identity assurance architecture we wanted to protect users from identity theft and fraud, to secure their data as it is used online, and to reduce the amount of information needed from the user to a minimum. …