Robert A. Costner writes:
Electronic Frontiers Georgia is forming a working group on Secure Authentication Methodologies.
Actually, the best signature law proposal I've seen comes from the, so help me, Massachusetts. It's a single sentence which says that there will be nothing Massachusetts law which can be construed to preclude the use of a digital signature. Double negatives aside, the above translates into legal digital signatures. Period. No bullshit about "Certification" "Authorities", or what constitutes a "legal" digital signature, or any other cruft. If you sign a state, or other, document with a digital signature, then, if it can be proven to be your signature, you signed it. Game over. Even broken clocks are right twice a day, I guess. :-). Now if we can get away from the whole idea of biometric signatures altogether, that would be the next trick... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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/