Anand Shankar said on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:17:42AM +0530,:

 > Have any of you done your income tax efiling with digital signature?

What is the cost of a signature authentication from a 
what-are-those-guys-called?

 > Strangely it asks you to register your digital signature certificate
 > (DSC) before you proceed.
 > That appears to be genuine that they want my CA certified Public Key
 > and digital signature.
 > 
 > What appears to be strange is that they are asking to upload the DSC
 > through a .pfx file or the usb token.
 > If u see the standards .pfx file is a pkcs12 file which contains the
 > public key as well as the private key!!
 > Am i wrong that innocent guys must have uploaded their private keys to
 > the income tax department?

Looks more like a case of misapplied standards - probably, non-free
apps on non-free OSes (obviously) do not comply with the standards. 

 > 
 > I wish to stand corrected.

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Mahesh T. Pai   ||
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge."
--Stephen hawking

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