Transaction-PKI - Indefinitely put on hold

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16304/agsc-tpki-requirements-00.txt

 

"3) The signing capability must be native in 
the browser; i.e.
   there must be no downloaded applets or locally 
installed
   plug-ins"

 

"6) The capability must work with all major 
browsers - Firefox,
   MSIE, Opera and 
Safari;"

 

 

If requirement #3 is combined with requirement 
#6, which we must assume is appropriate to do, we run into an interesting 
situation since MSIE (Microsoft's Internet Explorer) in its current 6.x version, 
without installing any "forbidden" extension code, AFAIK, is actually not able 
to sign anything.

 

Fortunately some PKI-TC members have reportedly 
spotted a person who will show us "wannabe" browser gurus, that with a some 
JavaScript trickery from IBM, MSIE can indeed do things that not even Microsoft 
knew it could.

 

 

Having requested more information on this since months 
back, I have a feeling that this person is not for real, and that we are 
actually just waiting, and most likely for nothing.

 

 

Anders Rundgren