[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The insecurity of digital signatures pales when we realize how little > security there is in the rest of the world. Handwritten and electronic > signatures are no more secure than digital ones. Either would be better than nothing. As the US banking system (and especially the bank clearinghouses controlled by the Federal Reserve system) has gone electronic, all the banks I know of have stopped bothering to verify the signatures on checks, and similarly those on credit- and debit-card drafts. Getting them to start using digital signatures would be a big improvement over the current wide-open situation. The governors of the Fed appear to be the only people in a position to start implementing such a fix. Do any of them even feel it's their problem?
