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Re:Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided b... by labawi on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:45PM (#26379065)
> digital signature is harder to forge than previous physical securities

Yet there are countries running 3072-bit RSA on Infineon chips, because their 3K keys are least broken. Discovery also entailed country-wide certificate revocation, which IIRC happened days if not weeks after the flaws were public, while the law states a digital signature has the same bearing as a physical one.

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Re:Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided b... by Nextgrid on Sunday March 07, 2021 @04:31PM (#26379969)
I would still argue that the losses caused by this breach were less than what other countries using a paper-based system see on a regular basis, both due to malicious action as well as the mere overhead of said paper-based system.
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