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Re: Customs and Excise Electronic Returns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Sep 30 11:43:52 2004
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: ben@algroup.co.uk, cryptography@metzdowd.com, risks@csl.sri.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:58:13 +1200
Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> writes:
>Oh yeah, another gem from the eVAT FAQ:
>
>"The Government Gateway and Digital Certificate authorities do not currently
>support the use of Digital Certificates on Apple Macintosh"
>
>Well, of course not, because everyone knows that Apple X.509 is completely
>different from Microsoft X.509. Duh.
I've seen this one before, this happens when the CA generates your private key
and emails it to you, a relatively common practice. Since the Mac can't
import the PFX/PKCS #12 files used by MSIE/CryptoAPI, you can't use them on
the Macintosh.
(This was pre-OS X, I don't know what the status is now, it may still be
something that requires MS CryptoAPI to work, or maybe the web page is just
out of date).
Peter.
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