Re: legal question of DSA-based signatures?

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: kaye@popd.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:18:36 -0700 Reply-To: Digital Signature discussion Sender: Digital Signature discussion From: Kaye Caldwell Subject: Re: legal question of DSA-based signatures? To: DIGSIG@VM.TEMPLE.EDU The document to which this refers is posted at: http://www.softwareIndustry.org/issues/docs-org/cg-opinion.pdf At 01:23 PM 10/3/97 -0400, you wrote:

I think I already know the answer to this, but it might be fun to have the word with the bark on it...

If you reply to this, I'll pass it on to the cypherpunks list.

Notice that the question comes through an anonymous remailer.

Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text

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I have before me a statement made by Information Security Corp.:

"The Comptroller General has ruled that, for the purposes of electronic commerce, DSA-based digital signatures are as legally binding as hand- written signatures."

Can anyone verify this?

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--- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: http:www.fc98.ai