On 12/04/2023 15.54, Alex Kink via talk wrote:
By "digital signatures" you still mean cryptographic digital signatures,
right, not scribbles on a PDF?
Both. Those squiggles you left on someone's Square app? Valid signature.
Who and in what context would accept them? I haven't tried, but I
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> I window shop for these on AliExpress. Most ads are unclear about
> just what modules they use.
>
This is why using established designers and resellers is a good idea. Even
on AliExpress, there are vendors who develop their
I think you are conflating physically signing a doc, with
digital signature.
When you use a digital pen to sign a doc, your signature does not matter,
it's completely cosmetic. The doc is signed under the hood electronically
using PKI with a trusted chain based on how you authenticated to the
| From: James Knott via talk
| The proper way to do digital signatures is with X.509 certificates. When I was
| at IBM, in the late 90s, we used them in Lotus notes. There are some public
| key sources available, but it's not very common outside of large
| organizations.
Maybe.
The troubles
I don't recall it ever being hacked but it did suffer from the ROCA
vulnerability few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCA_vulnerability
> On Apr 12, 2023, at 15:59, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember that Estonia's system was
> hacked. Of course the current
On 2023-04-12 15:54, Alex Kink via talk wrote:
By "digital signatures" you still mean cryptographic digital
signatures, right, not scribbles on a PDF?
The proper way to do digital signatures is with X.509 certificates. When
I was at IBM, in the late 90s, we used them in Lotus notes. There
| From: Alex Kink via talk
| For my Estonian dealings, I've been signing documents (any file for that
| matter) electronically since 2003.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
Certainly Estonia has been the leader.
| I saw some nut job at an intersection in Mississauga the
> On Apr 12, 2023, at 15:46, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
>
> Digital signatures - even self-signed signatures created in Adobe tools and
> some others - are as valid in Ontario as wet signatures.
By "digital signatures" you still mean cryptographic digital signatures, right,
not scribbles
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:54 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital
> (cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work.
>
We do, but it might not be a "we" that intersects with our "we". The
building industry in
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk
| It's a little hard to find the exact EP32 module used for that simulation.
| That's part of the problem: there are many different chips called ESP32
| /something/, but many of them are incompatible. Some have one core, most have
| two. Some have the ability
Znoteer via talk wrote on 2023-04-11 16:58:
baremetal.ca They're in BC.
Cool - I hadn't heard of them.
Oh, looks like they do "web hosting" but I don't see VPSs listed.
Also, I just cannot do business with companies that think including
emoji / smiley faces in official company documents
On 2023-04-12 14:54, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital
(cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work.
I think signing a document is a solemn act. So I don't want to just paste
a .PNG of my signature, I want to
I miss this sorely in Canada.
For my Estonian dealings, I've been signing documents (any file for that
matter) electronically since 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
Ontario was to introduce a digital identity system by 2021 but we are still
waiting. I haven't looked
We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital
(cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work.
I think signing a document is a solemn act. So I don't want to just paste
a .PNG of my signature, I want to actually sign it.
I don't have a modern Linux device with a
14 matches
Mail list logo
