Re: Digital Signatures - Acrobat
Ken Walker said on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0000,:
> I like what I see in OpenOffice and have plans to switch the support staff
> over to the windows version of that package and then, if that works out, go
> to an all Linux network.
Good strategy there.
> Suddenly though, there is a problem. Our Law Society and the
> provincial government have developed a new system for land title
> registrations ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/)
> and for corporate registry filings (
> http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/)
That is a very bad thing.
See http://www.gnu.org.in/philosophy/mitrules.html
> The Land Title system require digital signatures and use pdf format
> files for documents submitted. I am not sure at this point whether
> the Corporate Registry requires digital signatures. The use of
> Acrobat Standard v6 is required for Land Titles and it is only
> available in MSWindows. See http://www.juricert.com/j2a/efs.htm.
It is a very bad thing for governments to abdicate the job of laying
down standards and worse, hand over sovereign functions to
non-sovereign bodies.
> Generally the various registries do not seem to recommend use of
> anything but Windows and Mac software:
Which is bad again. This is a form of denial of the right to access
justice (ok - not exactly the judiciary, but once here, the same
mentality will be carried over to the judiciary too, IMO) to people
who use non-monopoly software.
> software capable of editing pdf files and attaching a digital
> signature the same way that Acrobat Standard does.
What is the `Acrobat Standard'?? I have come across the portable
document standard. It is very bad that the society calls it something
different.
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