Industry calls for Congress to set a national standard for just what is protectable through legislation. In 1995, the Supreme Court let the appeals decision stand with a 4-4 decision. Administration would have access to decryption keys in order to maintain its ability to wiretap when necessary. This prevents export of popular encryption software such as PGP and RSA as well as products by Apple and Lotus. By doing so, the Federal Government hopes to be able to restrain the spread of encryption software overseas to maintain its ability to spy.
Several attributes make the use of handwritten signatures compelling.
It's part of the document, and an unscrupulous person cannot transfer it to a different document. Since the signature and the document are physical objects, the signer cannot later claim that he or she didn't sign it. Signatures can be forged, or they can be lifted off one piece of paper and moved to another. DocumentS can be altered after they are signed. But for simplicity's sake, I'll assume that the signatures discussed in this article exist in an ideal world, It would be nice to have nonforgeable signatures on computer documents, but there are problems with this concept.