On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 08:39:38AM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:
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> 
> How does gnotary prevent the timestamps in signatures from being altered at a 
> later time
It doesn't. But doing so renders the signature invalid.

> , or a stored signature of an original document be replaced with a different 
> signature of a different document at some other time , and that altered 
> signature 
> also being passed on to colluding client ? 
What help is that to potential cheaters ? You keep a signed
hash of the document. If you hash the original it needs to
produce the same value as the signed hash shows.

Karsten
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