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Support for integration of state issued certificates #2099

Open mitar opened 8 years ago

mitar commented 8 years ago

In some European countries (to my knowledge, maybe also elsewhere) governments are issuing certificates which can serve as a way to sign documents with digital signatures which are legally equivalent to normal signatures.

The issue is that there is little support for tooling around such certificates (which are normal public/private keypair, signed by state CA). So it would be great if one could integrate them somehow into keybase ecosystem so that you could:

pkirkovsky commented 8 years ago

Are these like Estonian IDs, which are basically full-size SIM smartcards with a photo? Those can integrate with OpenSC and therefore GPG: https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Estonian-eID-%28EstEID%29

mitar commented 8 years ago

In my case (Slovenia) there are simply signed certificates. You can use a smart card to store them, but it is not required.

mitar commented 8 years ago

Related: #1732.

grawity commented 8 years ago

@pkirkovsky, it's not the card that matters, but the certificate in it – "integrating with GPG" would defeat the whole point.