[LINK] Electronic witnessing [was: High Court case Re: Register Online to Vote Should be LLegal]

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:40 +1000 30/7/10, Kim Holburn wrote:
>1. That if anyone else knows your private key it isn't private anymore
>(suddenly and possibly unknowably from that point on).
>2. How to verify it's really you (which is complex enough and just as
>important). ...

Ah, memories of things done a decade back:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/ECIS2001.html

Has anything actually changed since then, Stephen?

Do any RAs actually perform effective authentication of either humans 
or corporations?  (Or, even more difficult, government agencies).

Has anyone ever implemented a private-key protection technology that 
can work in the wild, wild world of Internet-connected consumer 
devices (as distinct from tightly-controlled thin clients within 
closed networks)?

[They're serious questions, not hypotheticals, and not asked 
sarcastically.  I did a bit in this area once upon a time;  but I've 
drifted off, and Stephen hasn't, and maybe Kim too?]

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