Signature certification

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 10:00 30/03/2001 +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote:
>At 07:31 30/03/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>At 07:47 PM 3/29/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
>[snip lots]
>
>>I may be wrong but I thought the e-sig actually verified the document in
>>question as a whole rather than just verifying the authenticity of the
>>signature. All a physical witness does (as has been said) is attest to the
>>fact the signature was made and not the date time or contents of the
>document.
>
>Used in the correct manner, an e-sig can verify that the document was
>'signed' by a certain individual, 

Signed with a certain private key, yes.  By whom, who can say?  That's
where the critical problem lies.

[snip]

Regards

Nicholas

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