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People in Mexico have been using PKI for more than 10 years. The Mexican IRS defined a system requiring everyone to get a private/public keypair and a certifica
by xtracto 4y ago
People in Mexico have been using PKI for more than 10 years. The Mexican IRS defined a system requiring everyone to get a private/public keypair and a certificate. (Including generating a cert rquest).
Everyone does it, including the most computer illiterate people. Gosh, accountants are super familiar with invoices
generated as signed XMLs.
If a very inefficient and corrupt government could do it , I'm positive a private company could find the way.
It's just a matter of finding the right analogies and encapsulating the complexity for people.
- carewell 4y agoAre they using these small pieces of hardware that look like a calculator? Something similar is offered by several UK banks (slide your card in, enter code, sign a transaction). Again, not sure if you understand the vast gap between this and the work required to handle a hardware wallet. As a counterargument: many more complex financial instruments existed for decades now and are not widely adopted because of both the cognitive load and the specialized software needed for participation. Adding hardware to this mix does not seem like a step in the direction of mass adoption. Just to be clear, I am not saying we should not innovate in this space. On the contrary, the current state of hardware wallets is unacceptable. The only way to make this a viable option is drastic innovation. Just repeating "not your keys, not your crypto" and "get a hardware wallet" is disingenuous.