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GnuPG for Washington State Electronic Notary Public Endorsements

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:10PM   
from the show-me-a-sign dept.

canopic jug writes:

C.J. Collier posted to the gnupg-users' list about working through the steps to get GNU Privacy Guard approved for Washington State electronic notary public endorsements:

[...] This all seemed to me to be something that GnuPG is designed to do and does quite well. So I sent an email on Friday night to the sender of the letter requesting specific issues that my provider did not comply with. This morning I received a call from the DoL[*], and was able to successfully argue for GnuPG's qualification as an electronic records notary public technology provider for the State of Washington.

In short, GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts < http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.45.140> in the State of Washington!

[*] DoL: WA State Licensing (DOL) Official Site: Home

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Original Submission

• You have no point yourself (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @07:22PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @07:22PM (#736668)

  Face-to-face identification is a total ruse. Your argument only makes sense if face-to-face identification were a rock-solid thing, but it ain't, and so your argument is nonsensical.

  That being said, there's no point to notaries anymore other than to identify a person and issue a digital certificate, which that person may then use thereafter by himself, without ever having to contact a bureaucracy again for any purpose other than to get a new certificate. Hell, the person should even be able to revoke that certificate independently.

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