Personal Identity Verification Card

nounverified·updated Oct 6, 2026

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Physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains stored identity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation, etc.) such that a claimed identity of the cardholder may be verified against the stored credentials by another person (human-readable and verifiable) or an automated process (computer-readable and verifiable).

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

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Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

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Information Class

Cui85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: PIV Card
plural: Personal Identity Verification Cards
possessive: Personal Identity Verification Card's
pluralpossessive: Personal Identity Verification Cards'

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