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Re: [E-CARM] PKI, CAs, TTPs &c.
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At 10:14 AM 3/27/98 -0500, Charles W. Gardiner wrote:
> The world is very likely to go with an electronic system that closely
mimics
>the present paper system with holographic signatures, because the institutions
>and procedures are already established in law and custom. There are even the
>equivalent of certificates in the business world! All the palaver about
>validating signatures without any local context strikes me as a waste of time.
By holographic signatures, do you mean handwritten signatures?
An observation by Matt Blaze seems appropriate here:
digital signatures are bound tightly to the signed document and only loosely
to the signer
handwritten signatures are bound tightly to the signer and only loosely to
the signed document
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