legally binding digital sigs (Atom Smasher)

[Lowell Porter]

www.findlaw.com is a good resource for legal questions. It can be
tedious to find exactly what you are looking for, however when it is
found, you'll get plenty of valuable information.


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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org>
Subject: legally binding digital sigs
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
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does anyone know what makes a digital signature legally binding (or not)

under US law?

thanks...


-- 
         ...atom

  _________________________________________
  PGP key - http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt
  762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
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 	"These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of
 	 the devices; they are the maximum that thermodynamics will
 	 allow. and they strongly imply that brute-force attacks
 	 against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers
 	 are built from something other than matter and occupy
 	 something other than space."
 		-- Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography





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