[93322] in Cypherpunks
Re: Legality of faxed signatures.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Costner)
Fri Jan 16 18:21:25 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:54:50 -0500
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
From: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <199801162156.NAA01504@proxy3.ba.best.com>
Reply-To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
At 01:56 PM 1/16/98 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>This is a big problem for me, because I want to scare
>businessmen into using digital signatures.
Part of the process for having a Digital Signature law is to establish the
definition of a writing. Since faxes are not writings, but email is, you
should be able to scare them into digital signatures pretty easily.
-- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746
Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org
http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key
