The "signText" function for TPKI

This primitive function was added by Netscape 
already in 1997, so I think we should skip the talk about "recent advances 
in browser technology":

 

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6152-10/sgntxt.htm

 

The signing world never bothered 
with signText, and later Microsoft added their own proprietary CAPICOM 
extension that they don't supply in the browser distribution because this 
extension is also very limited.

 

Due to this there are more than 50 incompatible web 
signature solutions on the market.  Many of them (WASP included), are 
at least 10 times as complex as signText.  Presumably for a 
reason.

 

It's that simple.

 

Now let our hired hand burn some real OASIS money 
to verify this again :-)

 

Anders Rundgren