- From: Michael <mikes@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:37:55 +0900
Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren at telia.com>, 2006-10-29 14:38 +0100: > It is equally interesting that W3C intends to start a new browser > authentication WG but have excluded digital signatures and key > provisioning from the charter in spite of the fact that about 10M > people today have to use proprietary browser-plugins in order > to get their work done. Maybe an answer to that is that this > is only happening in the EU which in this particular space is roughly > 5 years ahead of the US government and financial industry. The use of proprietary mechanisms (mostly ActiveX controls) for digital signatures is common in Korean sites as well, including Korean government sites. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith Opera Software, Tokyo xmpp:smith at sideshowbarker.net irc://irc.freenode.net/mobile-web -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2245 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061030/c1650345/attachment.bin>
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