"Peter Lebbing" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/10/15 17:04, [email protected] wrote: >> Therefore, I agree that a blanket holding that all digital >> signatures are non-repudiable is unlikely. > > I think you're moving the goal posts. I think Rob says that he's unaware > of any > case where a specific digital signature was argued to be non-repudiable. >
If that was what he meant to say, he didn't say it. "Robert J. Hansen" <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea that OpenPGP signatures are non-repudiable is a fashionable bit > of nonsense: I am aware of no court, anywhere in the world, which has > recognized OpenPGP signatures as being non-repudiable. > Which prompted me to ask "Are you aware of a court, anywhere in the world, which has considered the issue?" I wanted to find out if Rob knew of any cases in which repudiability of OpenPGP signatures had been litigated. Rob apparently thought I was questioning the legality of digital signatures generally. He replied "Yes, many! Digital signatures are enforceable in U.S. courts. Non-repudiability, though, as far as I know has never been successfully argued. More to the point, I don't think it could be." That leaves unanswered the question of whether non-repudiability has ever beem unsuccessfully argued, in other words, whether any court has considered the issue. If the goal posts moved, it was not intentional on my part. Discussions have a way of doing that. The focus changes. I offered my thoughts as to standards which might be useful in dealing with the question when it comes up. If a digital signature is a signature, its enforceability should be determined in the same way a handwritten signature's enforceability is. So, I'll make my question more general. Is anyone aware of a case in which the validity or enforceability of an OpenPGP signature has been argued? It would likely have come up when a party to contract attempted to repudiate his OpenPGP signature. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
