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# Distributed Known Facts

# Using Distributed Known Facts

Release 1.6.8 of the Government Gateway introduced distributed known facts (DKFs). With DFKs, rather than Uploading and Updating Known Facts to the Gateway, a service retains its reference set of known facts locally. In the illustration, as part of the enrolment process, the Gateway must send the known facts values entered by the user to the service. The service then verifies the user's known facts and, if successful, returns the associated identifiers. Whether or not a services uses DKFs, is a service configuration option - a service can not use both options.

Known facts are required as input parameters for a number of methods on the SOAP Portal Interface.

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