- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:34:13 +0100
- To: <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
My request a year ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2003OctDec/0072.html How it turned out... Microsoft today pre-announced the availability of a smart client for handling e-signatures for C2G (Citizen-to-Government) services and similar on-line activities. The announcement was made in the paper edition of Computer Sweden, by MSFT spokesman Predrag Mitrovic. It may look a bit surprising that the announcement was not in CNET but the fact is that Liliput country Sweden have magnitudes more on- line consumers with digital certificates than for example the US. Something between 8-10% of the population currently have an electronic citizen-ID and at least 5% are actively using such for on-line banking. The EU governments are likely to appreciate this initiative as existing e-signature solutions in addition to [also] being proprietary, usually are NDA-protected and fairly costly. My assumption is that the Microsoft solution will be free and a default install although it may not run on older Windows versions.
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