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Re: Qualified Certificate Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nap van Zuuren)
Fri Jul 22 13:24:19 2005
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From: Nap van Zuuren <nap.van.zuuren@pandora.be>
Reply-To: "nap.van.zuuren@pandora.be" <nap.van.zuuren@pandora.be>
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:06:05 +0200
Might be a nice (intellectual) crypto-exercise, but I am afraid that the
concept of the Qualified Signature will not get a widespread
implementation, expect for very specific areas/disciplines.
The main problem with the Qualified Certificate (overhere in Europe) is the
fact that the creating components have to obtain - as a minimum - Common
Criteria EAL4 ( Evaluated -Security- Assurance Level ) qualification; and
the lack of "card-readers" on User equipment.
On the European "exercise", started by a Directive of the European
Commission see:
http://www.ictsb.org/EESSI_home.htm
On Common (Security) Criteria, see:
http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/
Greetings, Nap - Gent - Belgium
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