[news_to_me]

> every citizen can get digital certificate, signed by government CA and use it to sign electronic documents

This sounds crazy smart. Why don't western countries do this? You could even put the fingerprint in the barcode of your driver's license.

[njaremko]

Because it's actually used to intercept encrypted communications of citizens. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/14/kazakhsta...

Having said that, a better implementation would be pretty awesome.

[icebraining]

Those are two separate issues. A certificate in a smartcard is not the same as a CA certificate used in devices to authenticate sites.

[vbezhenar]

Those are rumors. Currently Internet in Kazakhstan works fine without installing any certificates. I wouldn't be surprised, if they would do it, but not yet.

And, yes, those certificates are unrelated, AFAIK.

[icebraining]

Some do, like Portugal.