Abstract
To a lawyer, two issues stand out as critical impediments to the widespread acceptance of digital signatures in electronic commerce: the unresolved nature of liability issues and the looming uncertainty about the nature of the public key infrastructure. These issues are so closely related as to be almost intertwined.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
American Bar Association, Information Security Committee, Section on Science and Technology, Digital Signature Guidelines (1996).
A. Michael Froomkin, The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic Commerce, 75 Oregon Law Journal 49 (1996).
A. Michael Froomkin, Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases, 15 Pitt J L & Commerce (1996).
Bruce W. McConnell & Edward J. Appel, Co-Chairs, Interagency Working Group on Cryptography Policy, Draft Paper: Enabling Privacy, Commerce, Security and Public Safety in the Global Information Infrastructure (“White Paper”) 23 (May 20, 1996), available from Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President), and online at http://www.isse.gmu.edu/~pfarrell/nist/kmi.html.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Froomkin, A.M. (1997). Digital signatures today. In: Hirschfeld, R. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63594-7_83
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63594-7_83
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-63594-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-69607-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive