Qualified Certificate Request

Nap van Zuuren nap.van.zuuren at pandora.be
Fri Jul 22 13:06:05 EDT 2005


Might be a nice (intellectual) crypto-exercise, but I am afraid that the 
concept of the Qualified Signature will not get a widespread 
implementation, expect for very specific areas/disciplines.

The main problem with the Qualified Certificate (overhere in Europe) is the 
fact that the creating components have to obtain - as a minimum - Common 
Criteria EAL4 ( Evaluated -Security- Assurance Level ) qualification; and 
the lack of "card-readers" on User equipment.

On the European "exercise", started by a Directive of the European 
Commission see:
http://www.ictsb.org/EESSI_home.htm

On Common (Security) Criteria, see:
http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/

Greetings, Nap - Gent - Belgium







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