A Digital Signature Task Force developed the draft statute for the State of Georgia. The task force is an initiative of the Georgia Electronic Commerce Consortium. The Georgia Electronic Records and Signatures Act is designed to facilitate commerce by enabling a means of reliable electronic messages, minimizing the incidence of forged digital signatures and fraud in electronic commerce, implementing relevant standards, and establishing uniform rules regarding authentication and reliability of electronic messages.
and Signatures Act
Signed into Law April 22, 1997
DRAFT of Georgia Digital Signature Act
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The purpose of the effort is to facilitate the establishment of a statute to bring "Digital Signatures" into law. A Digital Signature is created using existing public key cryptography technology. This law authorizes the establishment of Certification Authorities (CA) that will authenticate a public key so that it will be trusted for use in commerce. The 'keys' are used to authenticate a sender or to decrypt an encrypted message. This technology will permit commercial transactions to be carried out across un-secure networks without fear of interception or forgery.
Electronic Publishing Resources
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IBM's InfoMarket and Cryptolopes
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First Virtual
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Merchants using First Virtual
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Utah Digital Signature Law
Washington State Digital Signature Law
Business and Economy:Companies:Computers:Security
Press release on Mastercard/Visa specification agreement
Overview of PGP and CAs
FAQs on cryptography
Evolution of the Digital Signature Standard
Surety Timestamping services
More Timestamping services
A CA certificate issuing device from BBN
Papers and articles of David Chaum
Check out the Utah statute.
Check out the Washington State statute.
Yahoo links.
Press release on the recent Mastercard/Visa specification agreement.
Back to basics.
RSA's FAQs on cryptography.
Standards overview.
Timestamping services.
Timestamping services.
An overview of BBN's certificate management
products, including the SafeKeyper Signer
Scientific American article describing blind signature
technology and digital privacy.
and Signatures Act
passed March 1997
Signed into Law April 22, 1997
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