Has there been any concideration for the difference between a digital signature that is used only for authentication and one that is legally binding?? What's the difference? When I sign a contract, I'm simply giving notice
that I accept its terms and conditions. What I write in snail mail, however, may also be used in a court of law to show that I actually thought or wrote whatever it was I wrote. Why would e-mail be any different?
I would hate for these Digital Signature Laws make every e-mail message I sent a legally binding document. :(
That's the rub about nailing down identity...there's no such thing as plausible deniability anymore. In a court of law, assuming you could prove to a judge and jury that digi sigs establish identity beyond a reasonable doubt, I'd imagine that anything signed, law or no law, would be legally binding insofar as you actually wrote it. I think I'm missing something...? --------------------- "Deities do not fall ten floors to the basement" - Willis pandemic@hotmail.com please contact for PGP public key. http://www.skylink.net/~bigdaddy