Re: [Sheflug] UK Government and M$

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

> Basically it uses .NET, and at this time only Windows/IE combinations
> work. Not even Mac! It says on the blurb on the site, as accessed with
> Mozilla 0.81, that they are 'working to  make it accessible to all' at the
> same time as using stuff that only MS proprietary browsers support. Nice.

Apparently it's the PKI stuff that's proprietary, which means that the
more heavy duty encrypted stuff will only work with IE. And with MS record
on privacy, the Verisign fiasco etc., I see no reason why Microsoft should
be trusted with a governmental PKI.


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