Re: [office-comment] ODF 1.2 and XAdES

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Re: [office-comment] ODF 1.2 and XAdES
"Hanssens Bart" <> wrote on 06/09/2008 10:44:01 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Since ODF 1.2 will support XML-DSIG, wouldn't it be useful to explicitly
> support XAdES (ETSI TS 101 903) - which IIRC adheres to the European
> Directive on advanced electronic signatures -  or should that be up to
> the application ?
> 

Good question.  I've also heard of a government-mandated digital signature 
standard in Brazil.  We need to examine these to see if they in fact can 
be implemented by applications based on the W3C dig-sig work we already 
have (best case) or (worst case) these are going to be contradictory and 
mutually exclusive approaches.

-Rob