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

Fri Jul 30 22:25:55 AEST 2010

I see the smiley at the end but I don't get the joke.
It's a crazy piece of software that displays a signature, but so what?
If you looked at the flux patterns in the ferrite on the back of a 
magnetic stripe card, you might conclude that technology was impossibly 
complicated too.

Cheers,

Steve Wilson
Lockstep
www.lockstep.com.au

Andy Farkas wrote:
> 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!
>
> <quote>
>
>  This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.
>
>  --------------ms070907040206060705020901
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>  On 7/29/10 4:50 PM, [someone] wrote:
>
> [blah blah blah... about 20 lines of message]
>
>  --------------ms070907040206060705020901
>  Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>  Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
>  Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
>
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>  --------------ms070907040206060705020901--
>
> </quote>
>
> Not at all complex :)
>
> -andyf
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