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Re: legal status of digital signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Fri Jun 9 20:32:56 2000
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 19:58:10 -0400
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
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> According to the AP, U.S. House and Senate negotiators have reached a
> compromise on legislation that will set national standards for digital
> signatures and the like. Details are in
> http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/technology/story/0,4500,500213819-500301920-501670828-0,00.html
Here's an interesting hypothesis that also touches on Perry's followup.
Digital signature "laws" are the result of PKI vendors trying to create a
market.
Does anyone really need non-repudiation? Cf the IETF PKIX WG blowing up as
they
try to cram semantics into one bit (1<<6 I think) and then give up.
/r$
