Re: digitally signing contracts

2011-10-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:40, melvincarva...@gmail.com said: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/ Let me quote Peter Gutmann's take on this: This writeup was motivated by the following exchange on a mailing list: >>I have some questions related to XML-Dsig: > >Argghh!! Run away!

Re: digitally signing contracts

2011-10-31 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2011, 05:21:56 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen: > Is there a general sense that this is viable (at least as viable as > scanning and emailing contracts that have been signed with a pen)? I think there are two points: 1) What exactly does a digital signature mean? 2) Can you prov

Re: digitally signing contracts

2011-10-31 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 30 October 2011 05:21, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I own a small business that works with contractors all over the world, > and I'm currently scratching my head over the issue of signing > contracts. I know that gpg can/has been used to this purpose, but I > wanted to ask the list's advice. There

Re: digitally signing contracts

2011-10-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
I have no experience in this matter, but it's an interesting problem, so here are my thoughts, whatever they are worth: When contracting on paper, the signature is a personal characteristic of the signer, so samples can be compared by an expert witness. Unless there's some sort of biometric compon

digitally signing contracts

2011-10-29 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
I own a small business that works with contractors all over the world, and I'm currently scratching my head over the issue of signing contracts. I know that gpg can/has been used to this purpose, but I wanted to ask the list's advice. There isn't a whole lot of information on the webs on the issue,