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Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#11

I'd be very careful with this. Looks to me like an invented standard: https://letsseal.org/site/standard

Aren't all standards "invented"? Do you want to say that there is no a RFC page for the protocol? Edit: spelling

Sure, lets say this lacks an RFC/ISO number, or any semblance of what is usually called a standard.

Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#12
Looks interesting, but in order to actually compete with any e-signing platform you'll at the very least need to have templates with pre-filled information, an API to autofill docs with required information, and more field types. Right now for example, you can only add text, checkbox, and date/signature fields. Checkboxes are required to be checked (no making them optional), so if there are multiple checkbox options, they have to check them all to continue. Not very useful for actual e-signing flows.

Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#13
post #9

Nice idea but with all related things the ultimate question remains whether courts will actually recognize it. Currently courts will still consider paper-signed and scanned PDFs as legally binding, so any verification on top of that is superfluous to them. More realistically, you take an oauth when you take the stand at the court, and if a signed document was altered by the counterparty you'd say so truthfully, if it…

This depends completely on the jurisdiction. This is simply not universally true.

Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't all standards "invented"? Do you want to say that there is no a RFC page for the protocol? Edit: spelling

Sure, lets say this lacks an RFC/ISO number, or any semblance of what is usually called a standard.

What I think you're trying to say, but don't seem to be getting across super clearly, is that this standard hasn't yet gone through an open third party review

Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#17
Loved it until I saw its using Bitcoin. With proof of work doesn’t it tie this project to a bit of an environmental nitemare? Bitcoin isn’t the best place for this, no?

I would have imagined Ethereum or some other ledger would have been better no?

Anyone with more crypto ledger knowledge be able to say what I’m trying to say more precisely.

Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#18

Poked around a bit..excited to see where this goes. Just a quick note, Under "Get help from the community > Disucssions", there's a 404 to https://github.com/letsseal/letsseal/discussions . The idea makes sense in principle I think, and but I'll be chewing on it a bit, haha. Seems like a solid standard, but you know how standards go.... (Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ ) I like that you kept a lot of the same co…

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Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

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post #3

Poked around a bit..excited to see where this goes. Just a quick note, Under "Get help from the community > Disucssions", there's a 404 to https://github.com/letsseal/letsseal/discussions . The idea makes sense in principle I think, and but I'll be chewing on it a bit, haha. Seems like a solid standard, but you know how standards go.... (Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ ) I like that you kept a lot of the same co…

It's the actual BTC chain, it's based on https://opentimestamps.org

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Re: Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

#20
I don't like the idea of this using bitcoin. I wonder if it's possible to build this off of regular PKI - certificate transparency logs for instance encode the proof of commitment, while the signature can be an X509 certificate.
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