just to chime in (i dont have much time at the moment): went to debconf in helsinki, was interesting, especially the focus on custom dds. two hints: any release of debian-lex should wait until skolelinux is componentised (self configuring network, live cd infrastructure etc) encrypting can be done (in newer machines) with a TPM (supported by 2.6.13) - the use case described by you is exactly what those chips are for and the linux library interfaces are already there cheers jj On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 20:00 +0200, Diego Zanga wrote: > >I will certainly have to look into Italy's lawyer > >document sharing practices. In the US, these types of > > If you need some documentation we could give it > (the italian "DOJ" still not fully published it). > > > >decisions on how to handle information sharing are > >typically left up to the state governments. To > >my knowledge, there is nothing as advanced as using > >XML and encryption standards to promote electronic > >document sharing amongst lawyers in the US at this > >time. Courts in my state (Ohio, US) are now requiring > >all > > Well, here we'r not so REALLY advanced : the > goverment, made available to all a program to > test such a features but it's a WIN32 only > application, and it creates an xml "template" > to be processed by WORD, WINWORD ONLY, so > we're working with some group of lawyers to > manage it inside eLawOffice, and make it > available on linux too, and without the need > of Ms-Office. > > I'm speaking with some OpenOffice developers > to make this "xml-template-like" files working > under OpenOffice too, but we lack many > informations about the full xml format being > used by the goverment ( some people give it > us ;oP ) actually we do not fully understand > how object created from m$word and added to > this xml files could be managed outside word. > > > > >documents to be submitted in MS Word format even, > >which I think is a very bad idea because we have all > >heard of the problems that MS Word documents have of > >embedding document changes in the final document. > >(Which can result in your clients and others knowing > >details about certain things - or other clients! - > >that you don't want them to know about.) > > yes, it's really awful :o) > > but thinking about M$ we'r still not sure > managing xml files inside M$-word could > prevent users to add virus to the files, > SIGN 'em and encrypt 'em for a court..... > and this will be awfull too :o) > > cya :o) > > > > > -- > Diego Zanga > - Gestionale Studio Legale Open Source - > www.elawoffice.it/blog/naarani.html > > >
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