Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-04 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Tony Lane via Gnupg-users wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/3/19 5:53 PM, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > > And this is probably the reason why digital signatures from GnuPG were never > > been adopted (for business related things) in the EU and elsewere.

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-04 Thread Tony Lane via Gnupg-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/4/19 3:35 AM, Stefan Claas wrote: > And do those 20 companies business with their customers were GnuPG > signatures are legally binding, like real signatures on letters? _At least_ 20 fortune 500 businesses _that I know of_. Mind you, I'm not

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-04 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Tony Lane wrote: > Digital signatures are, in general, legally binding. In the EU qualified digital signatures (QES) are legally binding and I strongly doubt that in the U.S. with it's ESIGN Act the same holds true for GnuPG home installations. I guess a proper Google search will show it us. :-)

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-04 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > Tony Lane wrote: > > > Digital signatures are, in general, legally binding. > > In the EU qualified digital signatures (QES) are legally binding > and I strongly doubt that in the U.S. with it's ESIGN Act the same > holds true for GnuPG home installations. >

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-04 Thread Chris Narkiewicz via Gnupg-users
> On 10/4/19 3:35 AM, Stefan Claas wrote: >> And do those 20 companies business with their customers were GnuPG >> signatures are legally binding, like real signatures on letters? > > _At least_ 20 fortune 500 businesses _that I know of_. Mind you, I'm not even counting governments. 20? Wow. Ther