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legal question of DSA-based signatures?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Oct 3 12:59:00 1997

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:17:32 -0400
From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>

I have before me a statement made by Information Security Corp.:

"The Comptroller General has ruled that, for the purposes of electronic
commerce, DSA-based digital signatures are as legally binding as hand-
written signatures."

Can anyone verify this?


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