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Digital Signatures

by Steve Gibson Apr 10, 2000 2:45pm CST tags: Wack News
Here's a story I cant say really excites me much. Congress is looking at passing a bill concerning 'electronic signatures' that basically make being anonymous on the internet pretty damn difficult.

... For example, a site selling beer online may ask for proof of age. Current digital certificates would not provide that information but would identify the user by name or an ID. [snip] The situation becomes worse because digital signatures are not 100 percent safe from theft... [snip] "They assume that strong encryption gives you strength, but it's like building a vault door into a cardboard box."

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