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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Let's get moving gang!!!
Keywords: Implementation, Network Novelties
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.013401.16422@svc.portal.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 01:34:01 GMT
References: <7686@helios.TAMU.EDU> <737@primerd.PRIME.COM>
Organization: Software Ventures
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In article <737@primerd.PRIME.COM> milgr@teapot.prime.COM (Marc Milgram) writes:
>|>Consider signing and sending petitions through the network...
>|>	(digital signatures)
>|>
>People keep bringing up the point that it is too easy forging signatures
>through email.  I see major problems if electronic petitions were allowed
>for federal and state political purposes.  (I guess that people can still
>forge signatures using pen and ink, but it is not as easy).

If and when the public key cryptosystem becomes widely used, digital signa-
tures should be harder to forge than pen and paper signatures. So if anything
a digital signature should be easier to verify and more secure.

>|>Consider people carrying "dynabooks" or "tablets" around...
>|>
>|>Consider looking at links rather than data...
>
>Do you mean for tracing criminals?  It has been done.

I think what was meant was linked-data items so that one would not have to
wade through megabytes of raw data to remain informed of govt/social issues
and pending legislation.

Dave Newman


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