Quoting Peter, from the post of Tue, 06 Feb: > You know, when you sign on paper, it actually means authentication, > open to graphology analysis etc. and this can actually stand up in > court. The electronic signature is more 'fluid'. Hmm, use the service
actually - and this is based on a chat with Haim Ravia if I remember - to accept a signed document in court you need the alleged signer to show up and testify it is his signature. going the graphological way is long and uncertain. Israel is one of the first countries in the world to have a digital signature law that allows to identify the signer even without his testimony, however, the law is not complete because it only deals with "digital signatures" and does not specify cryptographic sigs, what algorithems and who are the recognized CAs. but we are moving towards it. for instance I send all my tax invoices today by Email, via web forms at a company that creates a signed PDF and sends it to the customer for me, and it's recognized by Rashuyot HaMas. > for a few months (in this time the average windoze user will have > wiped his disk and reinstalled at least twice, thus erasing any > possibility to trace it in your logs) and then claim a refund on the well, once it's backed by the law, losing your digital sig will be as stupid and painful as losing your ID card, or worse. people will take a bit more care. -- Karma Police Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
