http://www.theregister.com/2005/07/13/uk_eu_id_proposal/
UK EU presidency aims for Europe-wide biometric ID card The UK is using its Presidency of the Council of the European Union to push for the adoption of biometric ID cards and associated standards across the whole of the EU. In a proposal issued on Monday (11th July), the UK calls for the drafting of "common standards for national identity cards taking into account the achievements in relation to the EU passport and in the ICAO framework." ,,, snip ... note that some EU govs. are trying to have legislation that has an x.509 identity certificate appended to every digital signature. this effectively turns even the most lightweight digital signature authentication even into a heavyweight identification event. when we were called into help word-smith the cal. state and later the fed. electronic signature law ... a lot of effort went into making the wording technology agnostic as well as trying to avoid confusing authentication and identification. the other force that was somewhat at work was moving things in the direction that a digital signature could take on the attributes of a human signature (possibly because of semantic confusion over both terms; *digital signature* and *human signature* containing the word *signature*) ... including that if a digital signature was discovered ... that human intent, read, understanding, agrees, approves, and/or authorizes was somehow implicit in the existance of a digital signature. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
