When Alice sends a message to Bob with an electronic certificate, Bob needs to trust the certification authority and can use the public key to verify Alice's certificate. This means Bob can only be sure that Alice is the sender if he trusts the certification body.

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In Switzerland, the Ordinance on Certification Services in relation to Electronic Signatures (VZertES) regulates the accreditation of certification authorities by the Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS) of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. Ultimately, Bob needs to trust the power of the state. In a letter to the NZZ, André Golliez of Swiss Data Alliance said that this was the only solution to this issue (NZZ, May 16, 2017, page 9).

There is absolutely no central trust center in a bitcoin transaction; instead, authenticity is checked using a hash function. Rather than relying on a certificate, a bitcoin transaction is confirmed with a number (cryptographic nonce) which, together with the transaction data, creates a hash value with easy-to-verify characteristics. These properties can be checked with very little effort and without the need to trust anyone. However, finding the number is a much more laborious process, as this ‘mining’ demands incredible processing power. Bitcoin transactions are entered into the blockchain, preventing the same bitcoins from being used more than once. For bitcoins, the blockchain is distributed redundantly across many instances, meaning you don't need to trust a single bitcoin instance, but rather the entire network. As a result, bitcoins are also based on a bond of trust, but not a single centralized one.

Complete Revision of the Federal Data Protection Act

Complete Revision of the Federal Data Protection Act: „As of 15th September 2017, draft and report for a completely revised Federal Data Protection Act is public. In a first step parliament and the people agreed to adaptations in order to be compliant with EU law. The second part of the revision is debated by the parliament since September 2019. Data Protection is to be increased by giving people more control over their private data as well as reinforcing transparency regarding the handling of confidential data.”

Links: datenrecht.ch

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