Digital contract signatures [ non-linux topic, nerd topic ]

[James Knott]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Pavel Zaitsev <pavel-XHBUQMKE58M at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I wonder if anyone uses digital contract signatures, like GnuPG
>> signed email messages, sent and replied to. If this has legal
>> precedent of being somewhat legally binding. Just wondering if it has
>> any legal standing in terms of protection. Since GnuPG signatures
>> generally are harder to fake then handwritten ones, if I am not
>> mistaken.
>
> We use digital signatures for verification of data escrow submissions,
> but that is a mighty specialized application, and I'm not sure that
> the people 'involved' that are sufficiently distant from technical
> details that they're not sitting at a Unix prompt all day necessarily
> understand the cryptographic issues with terribly much depth.

The CIBC allows digital signatures on loan applications etc.  They also
provide the key.

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