On Wed, 29 May 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

At 5:54 AM 5/29/96, jonathon wrote:

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A good Questioned Document Examiner will be able to demonstrate that the signed document in question was not authored by Joe Blow, even if it contains his digital signature.

I was of course talking about digital signatures, not handwritten signatures.

I was also talking about digital signatures. It is a specialty within the QDE Field, but there are a few QDE's that are _currently_ doing that. << Printed hard copy, not electronic copy, but that is the _only_ difference. >>

I would be very interested to hear how a "Questioned Document Examiner" can

It is at the point where statistics, textual analysis, grammar and lingustics converge.

possibly determine that a digital signature was not applied by a particular person.

I don't remember the minimum number of characters that are needed to establish that a document was written by a specific individual. Roughly fifteen pages of text that both sides admit as being authentic is required for the undisputed exemplars. The actual work is not that difficult, just time consuming. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com ********************************************************************** * * * Opinions expressed don't necessarily reflect my own views. * * * * There is no way that they can be construed to represent * * any organization's views. * * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * * * http://members.tripod.com/~graphology/index.html * * * ***********************************************************************