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Rebelgecko
1843 days ago
When I visited Quebec I was actually surprised by how common it was for the government to use cryptographic signatures. For example the wingdings hieroglyphics that get printed on every receipt (I guess to prevent tax evasion?).
Edit: an example-
https://mobile.twitter.com/nneonneo/status/92323100662615654...
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monkeybutton
1843 days ago
I love how often this comes up; whenever someone nerdy visits Montreal the first reaction to seeing those wing-dings is "I must know more!". Like this thread here:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/81attendees/fEjDmtd8Kf...
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