The widespread use of Acrobat within companies, and the business-user audience targeted by the service should guarantee a successful take-up, which in turn should prove to be a major driver of digital signature technology.
A Home Office spokesperson acknowledged that other EU countries are introducing digital signatures, but he said that the UK's ID cards are designed to be used for traditional uses and not ecommerce However, unlike Italy, Belgium, Finland, Estonia...
There are three significant rump session papers on hash collisions that will be presented," including an update on Joux's findings, Hughes said in a message to a cryptography-related mailing list. Encryption circles are buzzing with news that...
Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM'. Torvalds gave some examples of areas where he believes it's appropriate for secret digital keys to be used to sign software, or for a computer to run only software versions that have this...
A pair of security bugs in cryptography software could allow an attacker to insert content into a digitally signed message or forge signatures on files. The vulnerabilities could pose a threat to the value of digital signatures, Tavis Ormandy of...
The digital signatures, which use public key cryptography, are viewed as unforgeable. Signatures by authorised third parties are permitted as well, which is useful for outsourced email. The draft standard that the Internet Engineering Task Force...