[86745] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP signature legal standing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu Sep 18 14:30:45 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 97 11:18:37 EDT
In-Reply-To: <19970918145759.25884.qmail@desk.crynwr.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
> 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.
IANAL, but: what if you first sign a paper contract saying that PGP
signatres are binding?
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