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Re: Electronic Contracts

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NODE f403a526Re: Electronic Contracts jordan@imsi.com (Jordan Hayes)Tue, 1 Jun 93 06:06:36 PDT

I believe if you really want it to hold up, you should use the
Bellcore document signing service.  Has anyone heard of a company
that would provide this on a non-research basis?

/jordan

NODE 24c21121Electronic Contracts Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>Tue, 1 Jun 93 08:59:13 PDT

>I believe if you really want it to hold up, you should use the
>Bellcore document signing service.  Has anyone heard of a company
>that would provide this on a non-research basis?

The Bellcore service is properly a timestamping service and not a
signature service.  Their timestamp is constructed out of hash
functions, not digital signatures.

The algorithm is patented.  Contact Bellcore for licensing.  I'm not
sure they are going to license; they may decide that they want all the
timestamping revenue themselves.

Eric