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The Brazilian government has been trying to popularize digital certificates stored in smart cards and tamper-proof USB tokens that seem to be a solution to the
by rubinelli 15y ago
The Brazilian government has been trying to popularize digital certificates stored in smart cards and tamper-proof USB tokens that seem to be a solution to the problems you pointed at. The main barrier to adoption right now is cost, mainly because certificate issuers have little competition and a good chunk of money between infrastructure and concession fees to recoup.
- icebraining 15y agoHere in Portugal our new national ID cards all have a public/private key pair and the card itself can sign stuff without copying the private key to the machine, making the process very safe even when using it on a public machine. In a couple of years everyone will have on of those cards, the problem is that nobody has readers.
- roel_v 15y agoHere in Belgium we have the same cards, and the readers are cheap. The reason they will be wide-spread is because you can use them to file your taxes online, which many people are starting to prefer over the paper version. I think it's a good incentive for people to start buying these things. I just hope they will become standard on computers soon, but I fear not because the dominant markets (US, really) don't have such systems.
- icebraining 15y agoYeah, if they start requiring the cards for delivering the taxes online I think we'll have millions of PCs with readers in a year or two.