- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:45:15 +0100
"Michael(tm) Smith" wrote: >> 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. That's right. They sure are proprietary; I was not even able to get the Korean e-goverment signature spec since it is "secret"! Anders Rundgren
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