1. A system for automating the issuance, management and conveyance of endorsements to authorities, the system comprising: an endorsement issuance module configured to issue an endorsement associated with an endorsee, wherein the issued endorsement prescribes to specified endorsement issuance rule definitions provided by one or more authorities, the endorsement issuance module further comprising: an endorsee identification unit that retrieves at least one credential from said endorsee via an input device, wherein each credential provides for at least one endorsement from at least one authority and wherein each credential includes a digital seal that restricts access to the credential from at least one other authority different from the at least one authority; and an endorsement creation unit for adding at least one new endorsement to at least one of said credentials, said new endorsement added within a private field of a digital seal of a bar code; an endorsement conveyance module configured to receive the new endorsement from the endorsement issuance module, and to validate the new endorsement according to specified endorsement conveyance rules; and an endorsement management module configured to maintain specified rules according to an authority, the endorsement management module configured for: accessing a database for rules and protocol associated with valid endorsement registrations; receiving specified endorsement issuance rules from the endorsement issuance module; receiving specified endorsement conveyance rules from the endorsement conveyance module; pushing specified endorsement rules to the endorsement issuance module as specified endorsement issuance rules; and pushing specified management conveyance rules to the endorsement conveyance module as specified endorsement conveyance rules, wherein results of endorsement validation are presented to at least one of the following: an automated environment for providing access to endorsee, an automated environment for recording validation results, a display for providing validation results to a user.