Ian, > Stefan is talking about Germany which has issued a plethora of > recommendations, laws and what-not to "cause ecommerce to leap into > life". Unfortunately, they did not understand, and electronic documents > are much much harder to do in these environments, with no general added > benefit and lots of downside.
Moreoever, some other countries blindly copied what the Germans did, thinking that would be a good idea. The Austrians made some of the exact same mistakes but seem to have learned faster than the Germans. > The German rules have defied, there is no easy way to get into them ... > at least, the Germans have sworn to me it is impossible... Sad but true. This year'll mark the 10th anniversary of our signature law. I reckon nobody will be celebrating that event... > Qualified certificates are defined in the European Digital Signature > Directive, which is an over-arching design for all the EU countries to > pass into local law. Yes, this has already happened and has even been evaluated by the European Commission in 2003: http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/itl/elsig.php http://www.secorvo.de/publikationen/electronic-sig-report.pdf > It's only under the German code where they try and define it all, as far > as I can see. We are talking about a country where they tried to tax > servers so as to pay for their TV... Yeah, bloody Germans... :-) Cheers, Stefan. -------------------------------------------------------- T.I.S.P. - Lassen Sie Ihre Qualifikation zertifizieren vom 25.-30.06.2007 - http://www.secorvo.de/college/tisp/ -------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Kelm Security Consultant Secorvo Security Consulting GmbH Ettlinger Strasse 12-14, D-76137 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 255171-304, Fax +49 721 255171-100 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.secorvo.de/ PGP: 87AE E858 CCBC C3A2 E633 D139 B0D9 212B Mannheim HRB 108319, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Dirk Fox --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
