-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19970918145759.25884.qmail@desk.crynwr.com>, on 09/18/97 at 02:57 PM, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> said:

Is there any legal standing for a PGP signature? I'm tired of my luser customers faxing me legal documents, then expecting me to sign it and fax it back. Yeah, right, like photoshop can't cut-n-paste. I've got a fax modem on my Linux box, so I'm going to start (in fact have started) uuencoding the .g3 file, indicating my assent, and emailing it back to them.

Well I *ALWAYS* have any legal documents signed & notarized and then snail-mailed. Faxing/e-mail is only used for drafts. Be vary wary of Digital signature laws. They are being drafted by the clueless and IMHO will cause more problems then they are worth in the long run (no law is better than a bad law). A case in point; I just received word that under the Utah Digital Signature Law "encryption, of and by itself, would constitute the legal force of signature". Now I received this third hand but the quote came from the author of the Utah law. Why this is a *BAD* thing is left as an exercise for the reader. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNCFTx49Co1n+aLhhAQEdfwQAl3+aVvuJJrkDMk2IP0rEO2hflyxlwdDj z7/5BqRP3iLVhhzTq1whhle+Gl9G65dAWDiUcvwJ8V9vBI51VixFupWgMUTpNqqg mBS6jVbJeJScUCeG5N7mKj5cM5mjbc+U2Ziw1ldmvNxX0SINSQkj8KOsg68pbYUu qtMXCz3MZl8= =Srwb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----