-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Jun 2002, Henning Makholm wrote:
>Scripsit John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> True enough, but what if they were legally binding electronic signatures? >> Let someone try to attach a signature where it wasn't supposed to be and >> watch them go to jail PDQ.... > >No, the point about electronic signatures is that the only one who >*can* apply them to anything is the one who is in possession of the >secret key. > >Let someone try to attach a signature where it wasn't supposed to be, >and watch them fail. Oh, you mean that the price of forgery is both failure AND jail? Whatever shall we do?! My point is if you make endorsements legaslly binding cryptographic signatures, then the endorsement CANNOT be attached by anyone other than the endorser. Furthermore, since they're doing nothing but attesting the veracity of the work, they're not in any way shape or form preventing copying or modification. The only thing is that if the checksum changes, one would logically need to re-sign the work in order for the signature to remain valid, and modification of a signature in order for it to imply signing something that the signer didn't sign is VERY illegal. That is, we'd have exactly what the endorsements page was designed for--the following people attest that this copy is a true copy. - -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQE9DoYr+ZSKG3nWr3ARAjVKAJ9b15WeKAG2BRVZCDnURefxR7NPdQCgiiWX sWkRlQdWyrDS8jr4Y/QnTwY= =ZSUK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
