e-conveyancing

[David Swarbrick]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Nicholas Bohm
> Sent: 30 March 2001 10:35
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: RE: e-conveyancing
>
>
> At 06:42 30/03/2001 +0100, David Swarbrick wrote:
> >
> >It is quite unmeasurable, but I have little trust in those who
> say they can
> >tell when signatures are forgeries. As an area of expertise there is no
> >proper profesional standard that I would pat any great credit to.
>
> Finding good document examiners may be difficult, I accept.  But it isn't
> difficult to carry out blind testing of document examiners, and the
> academic literature has a good deal of material (briefly summarised in the
> paper I cited).  The main flaw is that there is no way of knowing how good
> the forgers were as compared with those operating "professionally".

As always, the logic is what drives me. You simply can not measure how good
they are?

> Have you come across cases where purported signatories convincingly
> repudiated documents which examiners said were genuine?  Such forgeries as
> I have come across have been obvious at first sight, let alone under a
> microscope.

No, but that experience would come to one only very rarely anyway.