EU Draft Digital Signature Directive

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:02:28 +0100
	John Williams <johnwill@bcsphcsg.demon.co.uk> said...

> Agreed.  It is surely true for written signatures.  If you know me, and
> see me sign a cheque made out to you - then you don't need my signature
> witnessed,  or somehow authorised by a notary.  You are simply left
> wondering if I have the funds in my bank account.  Even the bank doesn't
> ask for a third party certification of my signature.  Why should a
> digital signature be any different?
> 
Not quite. If you sign in front of me but, knowing you are short
of funds, deliberately sign in a style totallly different from the
signature dpeosited with the bank, then you can later repudiate it (at lest
to the satisfaction of the bank).

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