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Re: Digital signatures....??
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:46:58 -0400
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:47:04 MDT, "SCHALIP, MICHAEL" said:
Is anyone out there using digital signatures - I'm familiar with Entrust
We've deployed the Alladin e-Token for our leave tracking system in some departments. We haven't deployed it university wide because we hit a few snags along the way - for instance, trying to do digital signatures on leave reports is... problematic.. for some of our business units such as Housekeeping and the grounds crews, where there is no expectation of even basic computer literacy (and quite often no generic literacy either) - training them how to fill out an online form and sign it, and all the little challenges (like making sure they understand *they* are to sign it, not their supervisor who understands the process, etc etc etc). It's rumored we still have some deans and department heads who would need intensive training too.. :) We also handed out the first deployment of e-Tokens intentionally crippled to be able to sign only and not encrypt, because if we allowed them to encrypt business information (which overall would be a Good Thing), we'd have to address the problem of key escrow, which we don't have an enterprise-grade production handle on yet. I'll make a special note - all the problems we've had with the eToken have been integration problems into our business environment. The hardware works fine, and the worst problem I'm aware of software-wise is that they only ship 32-bit Linux driver libraries, no 64-bit. But I'm told that only 3 people are affected - me, myself, and I. So I keep a 32-bit Firefox binary around.
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- Re: Digital signatures....?? Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 11)