> In Norway if you want to log in to your bank you need a friggin Java Applet. Not with Skandiabanken. Their only special requirement is a phone for doing two-

> In Norway if you want to log in to your bank you need a friggin Java Applet. Not with Skandiabanken. Their only special requirement is a phone for doing two-factor authentication by SMS. If you wanna use the horridly flawed BankID, which they do also offer, you probably need Java as you say. Rant to foreigners about BankID: The conversation must have gone like this at a meeting of Noreay's major banks: - Public key crypto is good. - Yes! - But users are too stupid/lazy to safeguard their private keys... - Good point. How 'bout some trusted party taking care of those for the users? - Yes! And you know who you can trust? Banks! - Agreed then, we'll sit on the private keys, and when the customer wants so sign for say a mortgage, they just authorize us to do so for them. - That last step sounds cumbersome... - Nah, we'll just do it over the Internet. - But won't that put us back where we started? - Hush! I can't hear you over the sound of future income!