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Coronavirus hastens Japan's shift away from hanko seals (dw.com)
10 points by tosh on June 20, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Companies needed senior officials to be physically seated at their desks just so they could apply hanko to company documents, without which entire businesses would have ground to a halt.

I understand the general thrust of the article, and am reminded of verifiable private keys used by many modern encryption schemes, but I don't see why an executive can't simply take the hanko seal home.


So then the employees have to pack up their documents and drive past the executives home to get them stamped?


Scan and send electronically prior to stamping. Have a single box of outgoing stamped documents go from the executive to a secure mailroom twice daily for distribution. This doesn't sound very complicated.


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I don't think you should be attacking me personally. If your counterpoint is strong, make it without getting vicious.

There are far more complicated economic activities that have been tailored and modified to present circumstances.


That’s a fair point but I was responding to you handwaving away a real problem by coming up with a completely impractical solution, while the article shows the issue has been solved with a solution that works and it really seems you didn’t read it.

I could have worded it a little less aggressive but how can I make that point without addressing you?


Would you put your passwordless CA private key on a simple USB and take it home?


Would you take your CAC card home? Yes. Same deal.


Hardly. One's a limited certificate, other is a root authority key.




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