Peter wrote: > You mean *gasp* m$ mail agents which produce a message id that > uniquely identifies the sender, the machine, the time, and the message > are ok, but not a signature ? Yes. That's what I mean. >> According to the law in Israel (and in other countries too), digitally >> signing an email is identical to snail mailing the recipient a letter >> saying "I hereby commit to doing everything said in this email", bearing >> your signature. > > Can you quote this law please ? Here and 'elsewhere'. I'm not sure about elsewhere. Maybe http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-24852,00.html will help. For Israel, I can not find the final version, but here's a digest of an advanced draft (http://www.law.co.il/showarticles.php?d=h&article=56), and you have my word that the law was, indeed, passed.
If you need more, do your own search. >> Really, really bad idea. > Yeah, really bad. Everyone and their sisters already know you sent the > message, it is in your logs, it is in the recipient's logs, it is in > the ISPs logs, and then you deny that you meant to say what you said > when they come after you because it is not signed ? Really ? If they sue you in court, you can say that "I will take out the garbage" was a by-saying. If you digitally signed it, it's a binding contract. That's ok, so long as that's what you meant to do. Somehow, I doubt that it is the case for each and every email you write. > Also digitally signing a document doesnt imply anything legal It does in Israel. It does in the USA. I'm not sure about other countries. > Also to keep spooks and s**t like that on their toes it is every man's > duty to add a random hash to his outgoing messages. Like X-007: > YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from time to time of course). And this will help.... how? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
