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InfoPath Digital Signature controversy?
I came across this article in Robin Cover's xml.org newswire ... http://www.vnunet.com/News/1145784 with the somewhat inflamatory subtitle "World Wide Web Consortium says InfoPath signatures cannot be trusted." A little searching identified what looks like the primary source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2003OctDec/ 0010.html (hardly an official pronouncement of the W3C!) The gist seems to be: "Since InfoPath signs the data only, it is extremely easy to add things to the user interface after the user has signed, like fine print obligating the user to terms and conditions to which the signer did not originally agree " The article implies that XForms is somehow more secure or friendly to DSig than InfoPath, but the posting and followups make clear that XForms has no DSig story. Thoughts, or context on all this, anyone? Nobody in authority at W3C has jumped into this have they? This was cross-posted all over the place and I didn't follow the other threads ... anything interesting come out in them?
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