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It has been done better in other countries and could be done better in the US if there were political will to do it. There's a whole universe of cryptographical
by earthboundkid 7y ago
It has been done better in other countries and could be done better in the US if there were political will to do it. There's a whole universe of cryptographically signed certificates that we in the US don't use. The hard part is not signing a cert; it's making sure the certs are given to the correct people and having a procedure for when a cert is lost. Estonia has done this well; Korea has done this poorly. But it's quite doable if you have political will for it.
- cortesoft 7y agoDoes that then make the cert a high value target? How do you get people to protect it and use it properly? If it is stolen, does it actually make it HARDER to prove you didn't open the credit line?
- earthboundkid 7y agoThis is not a theoretical topic. Other countries have electronic signature system and you can evaluate how well or poorly they are implemented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures_and_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures_and_law