David E. Ross wrote: > > Somehow, I thought we were entering an era of electronic notaries and > signatures. See, for example, > <http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=00001-01000&file=1-26> > and <http://www.sos.ca.gov/digsig/digsig.htm> for how California has > been handling electronic signatures by government agencies for a few > years. > Not really! First of all simple paperwork has proved to be persistent over thousands of years and by considering that some CA roots are valid until 2030 and beyond, the media used to save anything in digital form might be well outdated.
Furthermore it would be pretty useless to sue a CA in a country which doesn't recognize electronic signatures (and for that matter almost every country has its own laws, criteria and preferred or certified CAs. Try to use Verisign as a legitimate authority in the Peoples Republic of Korea (just an extreme example). -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blog: Join the Revolution! <http://blog.startcom.org> Phone: +1.213.341.0390 _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
