Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-28 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Stefan Kelm wrote: > Nicholas, .. > There's another EU Diretive on "simplifying, modernising and harmonising > the conditions laid down for invoicing in respect of value added tax". > >Invoices sent by electronic means shall be accepted >by Member States provided that the authenticity

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-27 Thread Stefan Kelm
Nicholas, >> Stefan is talking about Germany > > I realise that, but he said "Europe", so I felt a UK counter-example was > in order! Point taken. :) However, there are other countries w/ similar rules. >> Qualified certificates are defined in the European Digital Signature >> Directive, whi

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-27 Thread Stefan Kelm
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

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-20 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#60 crypto component services - is there a market slightly related discussion of x9.59 financial standard protocol http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959 supporting hash of invoice in any dispute resolution ... thread from a couple weeks ago http

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-20 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Stefan Kelm wrote: >> Same with digital timestamping. > > Here in Europe, e-invoicing very slowly seems to be > becoming a (or should I say "the"?) long-awaited > application for (qualified) electronic signatures. > Since electronic invoices need to be archived in > most countries some vendors app

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-20 Thread Stefan Kelm
Ian, > Hmmm... last I heard, qualified certificates can only be issued to > individuals, and invoicing (of the e-form that the regulations speak) > can only be done by VAT-registered companies. True. > Is that not the case? How is Germany resolving the contradictions? By using pseudonyms withi

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-19 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Stefan Kelm wrote: Here in Europe, e-invoicing very slowly seems to be becoming a (or should I say "the"?) long-awaited application for (qualified) electronic signatures. Since electronic invoices need to be archived in most countries some vendors apply time-stamps and recommend to re-apply time-

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-19 Thread Ian G
Stefan Kelm wrote: Same with digital timestamping. Here in Europe, e-invoicing very slowly seems to be becoming a (or should I say "the"?) long-awaited application for (qualified) electronic signatures. Hmmm... last I heard, qualified certificates can only be issued to individuals, and invo

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-19 Thread Stefan Kelm
> Same with digital timestamping. Here in Europe, e-invoicing very slowly seems to be becoming a (or should I say "the"?) long-awaited application for (qualified) electronic signatures. Since electronic invoices need to be archived in most countries some vendors apply time-stamps and recommend to

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-17 Thread Ali, Saqib
i am not sure what you mean by "crypto component services". Can you please elaborate? saqib http://www.full-disk-encryption.net On 4/16/07, Travis H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So back when I was reading about secure logging I thought it'd be a fun service to offer, but it doesn't seem like a "

crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-17 Thread Travis H.
So back when I was reading about secure logging I thought it'd be a fun service to offer, but it doesn't seem like a "product" that the average business would be interested in; it seems more like something that would be a component of a larger system, or used by other systems. Same with digital ti