[mdlug] "Digital" signatures

[Dan Pritts]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:19:10PM -0400, Drew wrote:
> At 12:11 PM 7/22/07, Dan Pritts wrote:
> >as it turns out, there is a US law that states that "electronic
> >signatures" (whatever that means) are valid/enforceable.
> 
>      I hope that it would mean a PGP signature, which is designed to 
> as much as possible
> eliminate the possibility that someone other than the key owner 
> signed it instead.

Nope.

according to wikipedia,

The term electronic signature has several meanings. In recent US law,
influenced by ABA committee white papers and the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), electronic signature means
"an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically
associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the
intent to sign the record." This definition comes from the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act or "UETA" released by NCCUSL in 1999. [1] The
U.S. ESign Act of 2000 [2] enacted on a federal level many of the core
concepts of UETA. 46 US states, the District of Columbia, and the US
Virgin Islands have enacted UETA. 



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