Re: digital signature

["Fred @ Planetary Server" <user=1474@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 19:19 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Stephen Adler wrote: 
> > I need to go with a digital signature. My 
> > preference is to slide the bar as far to the "this is a properly 
> > digitally signed document" which can hold up in a court of law. 
> 
> I think any form of electronic signing would hold up in court, short of 
> evidence that the private key was (or could have been) compromised). The 
> question you need to ask though, is: how verifiable are the hand-written 
> signatures today? Not very. 
> I think the bar is rather low for you to get equivalence with the 
> current system in terms of "legally signed".