Hi Crypto-Mozillians, I wonder if any of you guys have any interests in making Mozilla setting the standard for on-line signing (a.k.a. WebSign)?
http://web.telia.com/~u18116613/onlinesigstdprop.ppt "signText" is far too primitive for current tasks and as I have understood it was dropped from Mozilla although it existed in Netscape 4 (at least). In Sweden 400 000 citizens used web-sign to file tax declarations using a non-public "bank-standard". I have been trying to raise a standardization effort in IETF-PKIX but the general belief seems to be that browsers doesn't count for anything serious. W3C felt the task was too complex and also that such an effort would make the web less competitive as you would not be able to compete with signature solutions (which BTW is a pure consultant paradise). At the same time just about every e-government is indeed targeting the web as the primary input output channel. regards Anders Rundgren Principal Engineer RSA Security +46 709 41 48 02 _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
