Re: [whatwg] Lack of standard for digital signatures [was Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5]

2006-10-31 Thread Channy Yun
Anders, As you said, we may not get sufficient informations to standardize digital signature. But, in case of Korea, I'll sufficiently give them. The spec. and interface are almost standardized by governmental rules to all vendors. In Korea, the own cryptic algorithm has been encouraged, so

Re: [whatwg] Lack of standard for digital signatures [was Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5]

2006-10-30 Thread Channy Yun
On 10/30/06, Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael(tm) Smith wrote: It is equally interesting that W3C intends to start a new browser authentication WG but have excluded digital signatures and key provisioning from the charter in spite of the fact that about 10M people today have

Re: [whatwg] Lack of standard for digital signatures [was Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5]

2006-10-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
The use of proprietary mechanisms (mostly ActiveX controls) for digital signatures is common in Korean sites as well, including Korean government sites. That's right. They sure are proprietary; I was not even able to get the Korean e-goverment signature spec since it is secret! Korean

[whatwg] Lack of standard for digital signatures [was Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5]

2006-10-29 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2006-10-29 14:38 +0100: It is equally interesting that W3C intends to start a new browser authentication WG but have excluded digital signatures and key provisioning from the charter in spite of the fact that about 10M people today have to use proprietary