So send a signed HTTP post over SSL. A digital sig is a digital sig
whether by email or post. The only advantange email has is that the
clients are better setup to manage the keys and perform the signing.

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Scott Stark
Chief Technology Officer
JBoss Group, LLC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hiram Chirino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] jboss.net email transport


> The cool thing about a signed secure e-mail message is that you get
> non-repudiation.  If at a later time company B tells company A, hey I never
> sent you a Purchase Order for 1 million widgets..  company A can show them
> the signed secure e-mail message that they received the PO in.  It would be
> harder to do something like that over http.
> 
> Regards,
> Hiram
> 



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