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From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: how to verify an article's submitter
Message-ID: <305@callan.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 20:17:09 EST
Article-I.D.: callan.305
Posted: Tue Feb 19 20:17:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Feb-85 17:37:54 EST
References: <462@aquila.noao.UUCP> <554@vortex.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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Summary: 

In article <554@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>I have assumed that some variation on a public-key system would
>be useful to help assure authentication.  However, it should be
>noted that the validity of these in case of litigation is 
>very unclear.  In other words, I know of no court decisions that
>have stated that such systems are acceptable (to the courts)
>as a means of identification.  Perhaps part of the problem is the
>lack of formal verification of the security of these systems
>to date.
>
On the other hand, courts seem to accept handwritten signatures, and as
far as I can tell, these also lack a formal verification of security! :-)
-- 
Duty Now for the Future
					Tim Smith
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