Thread by @amitranjan

Big win for #DigiLocker - its now powering India's National SSO - Single SignOn service (named MeriPehchaan]👇

What this means? Think FBConnect & GoogleConnect - these SSOs r used acros the internet to sign into websites/apps. DigiLocker SSO is similar but for Indian govt apps..

The National SSO service was launched yesterday as part of the #DigitalIndia Week 2022.

The CoWin example shown above is a live sample implementation... hope to see this turn into a trend, pick up steam and proliferate fast across government websites!

AFAIK the DigiLocker SSO is based on internationally recognized open standards oAuth2.0 & OpenIDConnect - this is safe, secure & provides one direction (unidirectional) access to auth services... similar to GConnect & FBConnect

As the saying goes "Well begun is half done"...

One of the big problems in using govt websites/apps is their sign-up & login flows. These are often non-standardized, inadequately secure, besides being ill-designed or maintained

Enter SSO to solve this issue - citizens get a common login credential for multiple public services

As an Indian citizen, I recall many frustrating instances of being stuck at the gates of govt apps, simply because I couldn't sign-up or sign-in.

Hopefully, the SSO will help in reducing this pain-point across many #DigitalIndia initiatives.

Also - the National SSO duties does mean a big step up for DigiLocker. This goes beyond its originally stated mission of building a national document & data exchange platform when the project was rolled out in 2015.

The SSO should help in driving DigiLocker's adoption further!