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Assignment 18. Digital Signatures

- Utah DSA
- Rest. Of Torts § 552
- Electronic Signature Directive
- Illinois ECSA
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  • 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: 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 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 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
Local Registration Agent (LRA)
Message Digest
Open PKI
Plaintext
Protocol
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Self-regulation
Symmetric Cryptography
Transport Layer Security (TLS)