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Re: [openpgp] Steven Mason's "Electronic Signatures in Law" now in 4th edition and FREE!

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Sun, 11 December 2016 04:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Steven Mason's "Electronic Signatures in Law" now in 4th edition and FREE!
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:36 PM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:

> On 29/11/2016 04:25, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
>> see e.g. Steven
>> Mason's excellent "Electronic Signatures in Law").
>>
>
> Just as an aside, the 100 quid ++ excuse to not read Mason's book is now
> gone.  The 4th edition is out, it's free online, in a PDF form.
>
>
> http://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital-library/obs
> erving-law-ials-open-book-service-law/electronic-signatures
> http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001602.html
> ​​
>
> And you can still purchase the paper versions or Kindle or etc if you're a
> lawyer!
>

​Which would appear to remove the argument that we should avoid digital
signatures because they are too difficult. It really isn't that difficult
to see that the digital signature does not make the legal position any
worse than it is with regular email and could if correctly applied make
things a lot better.

What we are really talking about here is not merely the creation of an
autography but the performance of an intentional act of signing.

I don't think that a regular email application or for that matter any
general purpose communication mechanism should be used for that purpose.
Rather, intent to sign should be expressed through a separate application
and a key that is specific for that purpose.

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