NODE df979b42PGP signature legal standing?
Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:05:54 +0800
Is there any legal standing for a PGP signature? I'm tired of my
luser customers faxing me legal documents, then expecting me to sign
it and fax it back. Yeah, right, like photoshop can't cut-n-paste.
I've got a fax modem on my Linux box, so I'm going to start (in fact
have started) uuencoding the .g3 file, indicating my assent, and
emailing it back to them.
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NODE ce8dbc82Re: PGP signature legal standing?
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:19:24 +0800
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In <19970918145759.25884.qmail@desk.crynwr.com>, on 09/18/97
at 02:57 PM, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> said:
>Is there any legal standing for a PGP signature? I'm tired of my luser
>customers faxing me legal documents, then expecting me to sign it and fax
>it back. Yeah, right, like photoshop can't cut-n-paste. I've got a fax
>modem on my Linux box, so I'm going to start (in fact have started)
>uuencoding the .g3 file, indicating my assent, and emailing it back to
>them.
Well I *ALWAYS* have any legal documents signed & notarized and then
snail-mailed. Faxing/e-mail is only used for drafts.
Be vary wary of Digital signature laws. They are being drafted by the
clueless and IMHO will cause more problems then they are worth in the long
run (no law is better than a bad law).
A case in point; I just received word that under the Utah Digital
Signature Law "encryption, of and by itself, would constitute the legal
force of signature". Now I received this third hand but the quote came
from the author of the Utah law. Why this is a *BAD* thing is left as an
exercise for the reader.
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NODE cdfe5cdbRe: PGP signature legal standing?
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:41:47 +0800
Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
> Is there any legal standing for a PGP signature? I'm tired of my
> luser customers faxing me legal documents, then expecting me to sign
> it and fax it back. Yeah, right, like photoshop can't cut-n-paste.
> I've got a fax modem on my Linux box, so I'm going to start (in fact
> have started) uuencoding the .g3 file, indicating my assent, and
> emailing it back to them.
IANAL, but: what if you first sign a paper contract saying that PGP
signatres are binding?
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