I am really impressed re: Argentina's use of cryptographic methods of authentication. That is worlds beyond anything I have seen in the states. I believe that to really preserve attorney-client privilege, email traffic should be encrypted, but that is not the norm and certainly a topic for a different discussion.
Support for S/MIME, PGP, and other certificate authorities ought to be included in DebianLex, especially of there are jurisdictions actively employing such methodologies. K On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Figueirido < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > ter wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 07:24 -0300, Barbara Figueirido wrote: > ......... > > This reminds me - how about a new category/metapackage for > > Confidentiality (not quite the same as security)? It is very important > > to practice in the US (elsewhere too?), but which is not being addressed > > even in the non-FOSS world, maybe due to a lack of awareness of how to > > use encryption tools. It could be an area where DebianLex could shine! > > > > Certainly! I don't know if it would amount to a category, but may well > be so. > Adding the category as a working idea seems great. I think it should > comprise encription, PKI, digital signatures & the like, there is quite > a lot of relevant and well established (FOSS) software around. > For those interested, in Argentina there is a never-quite-enforced > making a (non-technical) distinction between electronic signatures & > digital signatures, the latter having equal value as a handwritten one. > To qualify as "digital signature" it should be based on a certificate > issued by a certified Certifying Authority (sounds like a joke). > I don't think I should bother you with the intricacies of this system, > if someone is interested please write me on private, I will gladly > explain more on this fascinating topic. > > Regards, > Barbara > > > > Regards, > > Elaine > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- In Vino Veritas http://rubbernecking.info
