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Government archiving rules often mandate use of digital signing. In the US, NARA has rules about what count as "trustworthy records" along these lines. E.g.,
by chalst 13y ago
Government archiving rules often mandate use of digital signing. In the US, NARA has rules about what count as "trustworthy records" along these lines.
E.g., see http://www.epa.gov/records1/faqs/rks.htm http://www.epa.gov/records1/faqs/rks.htm
OOXML, PDF, and ODF each have a standard "container" and key management model that makes this a whole lot easier than plain text.
- tmzt 13y agoDoesn't "plain text" have a standard "container" in the form of MIME that also allows attaching things like signatures in a standard format? 7-bit ascii has been around for a lot longer than these formats which mostly represent a dump of the state of a formatting engine into something like XML in a file tree and compressed with PKZIP.
- chalst 13y agoI was thinking of something like this when I wrote my comment. MIME does function as a container model, but it's not plain text and it could only be a standard with supplementation. But there's a UNIX-y sense in which this is all human-readable text representations. I'm not really familiar with the internals of ODF, but OOXML, while it does capture quite a lot of UI state, is actually quite clean and represents the intuitive document structure rather well.