Hi Martin, thanks for the information, do you have any idea if they have any "test" or dummy cards you can get for testing purposes?
cheers Jeroen On 02/24/2012 12:13 PM, Martin Bene wrote: >> I'm doing research for signing pdf's with the belgian eID card, but I was >> wondering if other countries also >> have electronic ID's which you can use to sign documents and where to find >> information about them. > > Austria has something like that: the Austrian "Bürgerkarte"; it has two key > pairs: > * "encryption" key pair that can be integrated into the windows crypto > framework and used both for signatures and encryption, but is not legaly > equivalent to a normal (ballpoint/pen) signature and > * "signature" key pair that needs its own software stack to perform > signatures, but is legally equivalent to a normal signature (except for a > very few special cases). > > You can find general information here: > http://www.buergerkarte.at/index.en.php, specifi info on signing .pdf files > can be found here: http://www.buergerkarte.at/pdf-signatur.en.php > > While software to sign PDFs exists, it's not trivial to get at the required > functions to allow pdf signatures with iText using the "signature" key pair > (i.e, sign a digest calculated outside of the provided software stack). > > Bye, Martin > No disclaimer. Icomedias > > > [icomedias ist erster Microsoft Gold Partner Digital Marketing in Österreich > - > www.icomedias.com]<http://www.icomedias.com/Blog/Seiten/icomedias-Microsoft-Gold-Partner-Digital-Marketing.aspx> > > icomedias.com<http://icomedias.com> | icomedias® Gruppe | icomedias GmbH | > Entenplatz 1 | 8020 Graz. FB: LG.ZRS Graz FN 217 305t, UID ATU 5328 0701, GF > Christian Ekhart. Disclaimer.icomedias Diese Nachricht drückt die persönliche > Meinung des Schreibers aus und ist keine Stellungnahme des jeweiligen > Unternehmens. Irrtum und Fehler sind vorbehalten. Eine mögliche digitale > Signatur der Nachricht dient nur der Sicherstellung der Unversehrtheit, > ordnet aber weder Unternehmen noch Personen zu und stellt keine Unterschrift > dar. Fehler und Irrtum sind vorbehalten. Für das jeweilige Unternehmen kann > nur ein Geschäftsführer in firmenmäßiger Zeichnung mit Unterschrift in > Schriftform rechtsverbindlich sprechen. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a > reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: > http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
