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I hope at least some of the tech is shared between provinces
by barbazoo 5y ago
I hope at least some of the tech is shared between provinces
- morvita 5y agoI'm not sure how Quebec's system works, but BC's vaccine cards are based on the SMART Health Card [0] standard. The validation app they've put out is open source [1]. I haven't looked at the validation app's code, but I assume the main reason the have their own app instead of pointing businesses to one of the existing SMART Health Card validators is so they can bundle the public keys used for verifying the QR data wasn't tampered with allowing the app to work offline. The SMART Health Card system does provide a way to download the public keys (I've checked and BC does publish them as expected), but it's probably easier to guarantee offline functionality here. [0] https://smarthealth.cards/index.html https://smarthealth.cards/index.html [1] https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-iOS https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-iOS, https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-Android https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-Android
- fknorangesite 5y ago> I'm not sure how Quebec's system works An explanation: https://mikkel.ca/blog/digging-into-quebecs-proof-of-vaccination/ https://mikkel.ca/blog/digging-into-quebecs-proof-of-vaccina...
- halostatue 5y agosnort Not with the bozos in charge of Alberta and Ontario. I _believe_ that Québec _offered_ Ontario parts of its app (the backend medical systems part would require something different) and our chuckleheads said “nah; we can build this in less than 90 days” (it took Québec ~4 months).