It's also worthy to point out many nation-state deploys Smart Card identifications (despite the privacy concern), allow it's citizens (or subjects) to authenticate with government services online.
Filing income tax online is the only use case for me personally to use an Windows VM (for IE & ActiveX) or a Java plug-in. Web has so far failed to fulfill this use case as essential and certain as death [1]. In Taiwan, 45% of tax filing is through Smart Cards online [2] this year. The alternatives would be go down to the tax office to file it on paper, or authenticate in person to get the income manifest *and* file online with the authenticated passcode printed on the manifest. WebCrypto could save some trees by preventing people from having to do that. (I am not sure these are the right mailing list for raising the use case -- please advice if this should go somewhere else.) Thanks, Tim [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_%28idiom%29 [2] https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E8%87%AA%E7%84%B6%E4%BA%BA%E6%86%91%E8%AD%89%E7%B6%B2%E8%B7%AF%E5%A0%B1%E7%A8%85-%E5%86%8D%E5%89%B5%E6%96%B0%E9%AB%98-093200374.html On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:39 PM, helpcrypto helpcrypto <helpcry...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know a lot of colleagues with the same problem, and that's why there has > been a rumble about "out of scope smartcards on Webcrypto". _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
