It is really strange that the income tax seeks the private key besides the public. This in effect nullifies authenticity vis-a-vis the whole concept of digitally signing document/ e-return. This issue should certainly be raised with income tax officials.
Kamal Dave Advocate On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anand Shankar said on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:17:42AM +0530,: > > > Have any of you done your income tax efiling with digital signature? > > What is the cost of a signature authentication from a > what-are-those-guys-called? > > > Strangely it asks you to register your digital signature certificate > > (DSC) before you proceed. > > That appears to be genuine that they want my CA certified Public Key > > and digital signature. > > > > What appears to be strange is that they are asking to upload the DSC > > through a .pfx file or the usb token. > > If u see the standards .pfx file is a pkcs12 file which contains the > > public key as well as the private key!! > > Am i wrong that innocent guys must have uploaded their private keys to > > the income tax department? > > Looks more like a case of misapplied standards - probably, non-free > apps on non-free OSes (obviously) do not comply with the standards. > > > > > I wish to stand corrected. > > -- > Mahesh T. Pai || > "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, > it is the illusion of knowledge." > --Stephen hawking > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
