[okular] [Bug 446549] Digital signature feature confusing for new users

[Juha Tuomala]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446549

Juha Tuomala <tuju at iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #17 from Juha Tuomala <tuju at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> Digital signature is a very clearly defined term
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature 
> 
> I don't feel it's our responsibility to tech people what clearly defined
> things mean. Should we teach them what "File" means? What "Save" means?
> Where do you draw the line?
> 
> I mean the documentation says says "Adding Digital Signatures" and "To be
> able to sign a document you need to have a proper PKCS signing certificate
> available on your system. " what is more clear than we're speaking about a
> "cryptographic" signature than that.
> 
> If you don't know what PKCS means either, then wikipedia it again "In
> cryptography, PKCS stands for 'Public Key Cryptography Standards'"

Good answer. Any analog signature image is just pure joke. Get a government
issued personal certificate on QSCD. If your own government doesn't have such
thing,  go to the nearest Estonian embassy
https://vm.ee/en/consular-visa-and-travel-information/estonian-representations-around-world 
For example, in the USA it would be:

Estonian Embassy in Washington
2131 Massachusetts Avenue NW D.C. 20008 Washington
embassy.washington at mfa.ee
+1 2025880101
https://washington.mfa.ee 

and they will properly authenticate you and you can buy a smartcard that
contains proper X509 certificates for authentication+encryption and digital
signatures. Those signatures are eIDAS QES LoA and equal hand written
signatures.

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