Re: e-Government uses "Authority-stamp-signatures"

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

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"Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>It may be interesting to know that Swedish authorities are currently
>launching a Web Services-like system called SHS, where authorities
>communicate with each other through web-server "nodes" where out-going
>messages are automatically signed by the authority identified as an "entity"
>(organization), rather by an individual associated to the authority.

Does this follow a particular model like DOMSEC, or is it yet another roll-
your-own?  There appear to be a number of groups doing DOMSEC-like things, but
everyone's doing it differently...

Peter.