Re: [egov] Possible OASIS WebSign effort

["Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@telia.com>]

John Messing wrote:

>How does this differ from the Digital Signature Services TC (DSS TC)?

Good question.

DSS is (as far as I understand), a protocol that does signature creation
and signature validation.  However, it does not have any bindings to
a browser or a user.  The primary target for DSS ought to be as a
delegated security service.

WebSign, is a local signature process running in the browser controlled
by a user and hopefully supporting a What You See Is What You Sign
(WYSIWYS) capability.

regards
Anders


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [egov] Possible OASIS WebSign effort
> From: "Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@telia.com>
> Date: Tue, August 23, 2005 8:25 am
> To: "eGov OASIS" <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
> 
> F.Y.I.
> 
> There has recently been some discussions within OASIS regarding the launch
> of a TC for the purpose of creating a Web Sign standard.  
> 
> Web Sign: The ability for a user to sign a document or form in a web browser
> and having the signature submitted to a web server.  A minimal such function
> already exists in Mozilla Firefox in the form of "signText".
> 
> Having worked with Web Sign concepts for several years, I am happy about
> the increasing interest in creating a standard, but I also know that there are
> huge scope issues to agree on including:
> 
> - Document format(s)
> - Signature invocation mechanism to use
> - Wet or dry signature support
> - Local signature validation/multiple signatures
> - Encryption options
> - WYSIWYS
> 
> In case you are interested, please drop me a line.
> 
> regards
> Anders Rundgren
> Working for a major US computer security company but here acting as an individual
> 
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