# Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture **DEMO** is now online | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [59]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2007-09-29 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/cheapid-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-demo-now-online-309. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Working demo of the identity layer. - Career works it belongs to: - CheapID (2006): Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, that keeps... - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (suggested by machine) - Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): ConsenSys essay on what identity is, and how to build identity people can live with: profiles kept apart,... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. - cyber and defense: Security work for defense clients, built on one idea: set rivals to check each other. Resilience and Opportunity in... - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. - Ideas developed here: CheapID / identity for everyone; State in a Box - Topics: CheapID, biometrics & identity (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: CheapID (1 here; 25 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.36 (1.00 is the top), number 186 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [35] [CheapID (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md): same career work: CheapID - [31] [guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md): same career work: CheapID - On the same works, just before: [31] [guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md); [35] [CheapID (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md); [66] [My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) - On the same works, just after: [67] [Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md); [64] [Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md); [26] [Index of /TRUTHANDBEAUTY (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture **DEMO** is now online | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2007-09-29, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/cheapid-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-demo-now-online-309; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [59], https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/cheapid-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-demo-now-online-309) CheapID demo now online. You can go, you know, generate yourself a dodgy ID card, and get a real solid idea of what on earth all this Identity Services Architecture stuff is about. Note well, the code is flakey, your IDs will break every time I tweak the code, and this is a junky alpha. Of, well, a biometrics system that actually believes, in every detail, that Security + Privacy == Liberty, for small enough values of all those terms. --- End of [59] Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture **DEMO** is now online | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); the most closely related, [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.