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> every citizen can get digital certificate, signed by government CA and use it to sign electronic documents This sounds crazy smart. Why don't western countri
by news_to_me 10y ago
> every citizen can get digital certificate, signed by government CA and use it to sign electronic documents
This sounds crazy smart. Why don't western countries do this? You could even put the fingerprint in the barcode of your driver's license.
- njaremko 10y agoBecause it's actually used to intercept encrypted communications of citizens. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/14/kazakhstan_wants_citizens_to_download_a_mandatory_national_security_certificate.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/14/kazakhsta... Having said that, a better implementation would be pretty awesome.
- icebraining 10y agoThose are two separate issues. A certificate in a smartcard is not the same as a CA certificate used in devices to authenticate sites.
- vbezhenar 10y agoThose are rumors. Currently Internet in Kazakhstan works fine without installing any certificates. I wouldn't be surprised, if they would do it, but not yet. And, yes, those certificates are unrelated, AFAIK.
- icebraining 10y agoSome do, like Portugal.