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Re: IP: [FP] California inaugurates digital signatures - cnn.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bram)
Wed Oct 20 21:45:52 1999

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail", pt. 2
> 
> [snip]

I don't don't understand what the big deal is - fraud is fraud, even if
it's in plaintext email. Making digital signatures have the same legal
staatus as physical signatures doesn't change that at all.

-Bram


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