[PLUG] Signing contracts digitally?

brent timothy saner on 21 Feb 2014 09:35:40 -0800

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[PLUG] Signing contracts digitally?

From: brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Signing contracts digitally?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:35:30 -0500
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So informally, we know that digital signatures *can* be accepted in
UK/Europe court of law, generally speaking. If my reading is correct.[0]

However, what is the status of this in the US? Are digital signatures
(e.g. done via PGP/openPGP[GnuPG/GPG]) considered valid and legally
binding?

If I were to write up in presence of a notary a document that stated
"I, _________, can attest that the below digital public key
fingerprint and public key are bound to a private key that only I
control, and take responsibility for the actions performed using said
matching private key.

(print name)
(signature)"

and then have it notarized, would that keypair then be able to be used
as a legally binding signature?


[0] http://www.fipr.org/publications/newsig.html
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