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

[Andy Farkas]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Stephen Wilson <swilson at lockstep.com.au> wrote:
>
> Digital signatures need not be any any more complex than credit cards or
> electronic bus tickets.
>

I have just read an email on another mail list. I have not
seen pkcs7-signature before. Looks like bloat-ware to me!

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 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.

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 On 7/29/10 4:50 PM, [someone] wrote:

[blah blah blah... about 20 lines of message]

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Not at all complex :)

-andyf