ASSIGNMENT 15: Digital Signatures

- UCC § 1-201(39)
- Utah Code Ann §§ 3-46-302, 303, 305, 309, 406
- E-SIGN § 101(a)
- UETA § 7
- Rest. Of Torts § 552
- ES Directive arts. 2, 3, 5 and 6, Annexes I, II & III
There are no updates for this assignment.
15.1 Conventional Cryptography
15.2 Asymmetric Cryptography
15.3 Message Digest
15.4 Digitally Signed Documents
15.5 Certificate Authority
15.6 SSL
  • Jane Winn, The Emperor's New Clothes: The Shocking Truth about Digital
    Signatures and Internet Commerce, 37 Idaho L. Rev. 353 (2001) a thorough
    explication, mirroring the analysis of the assignment, of the failure of
    digital signatures.

  • Jane Winn and Carl Ellison, Regulating the Use of Electronic Authentication
    Procedures by US Consumers, in The Global Electronic Marketplace, U.S.
    Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace,
    March 26, 1999, available on the FTC Web site at
    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/icpw/comments/revwin~1.htm -- a concise criticism of
    digital-signature laws that limit the liability of technology developers
    that promote their use or online merchants that rely on them.

  • The ABA Digital-Signature Guidelines, available from the ABA Web site at
    http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsgfree.html -- the gospel written by
    true believers at the height of digital-signature enthusiasm

  • The ABA's PKI Assessment Guidelines also are available from the ABA Web
    site, specifically at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/pag/pag.html --
    a complex, ponderous document that tries to answer every question that has
    ever been asked about public-key infrastructure

Asymmetric Cryptography
Authentication System
CA Root
Certification Authority (CA)
Certification Practice Statement
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) 
Cipher
Ciphertext
Closed PKI
Cryptography
Cryptosystem
Decryption
Digital Signature
Electronic Signature
Encryption
Encryption Algorithm
E-SIGN
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Hash Function
Key
Killer App
Local Registration Agent (LRA)
Message Digest
Open PKI
Plaintext
Protocol
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Self-regulation
Smart Card
Symmetric Cryptography
Transport Layer Security (TLS)

 

 
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