Digital certificates can be explained as digital passports, which help in
authentication of the bearer on the Internet. This also helps maintain,
privacy and integrity of Net-based transactions. Digital signatures are
accorded the same value as paper-based signatures of the physical world by
the Indian IT Act 2000. Each of these functions help bring trust in
Net-based transactions.
This passed by without too many people noticing:
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3597911/c_3597966?f=home_todayinfinance
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The SEC also asserts that the company's 10-Q bore an unauthorized electronic signature of Guccione -- who was Penthouse's principal executive officer and principal financial officer at the time. The signature indicated that Guccione had reviewed and signed the filing and the accompanying Sarbanes-Oxley certification. “This representation was false,” the SEC stated in its complaint.
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"You got your SOX in my Digital Signature Repudiation!" "You got your Digital Signature Repudiation in my SOX!" "Someone order a failed porn empire?"
--Dan
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