RE: [dss] Representing requestor's identity

["jmessing" <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

I disagree as to the approach and the priorities you describe for the work of the TC.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>
Date:  Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:35:08 -0700

>At 02:51 PM 4/30/2003 -0400, jmessing wrote:
>
>>I hope that you appreciate that is not about signer intent or signature 
>>policies.
>>
>>It is about ways to enable the avoidance of unpleasant legal consequences 
>>by having the necessary information inevitably present as metadata where 
>>an enterprise has many people signing for it using a single key.
>
>That's a good idea.  But it's reasonable for standards to be designed in 
>layers.  I think our core protocol should concern itself with the lower 
>layer of passing data to the server and receiving back a cryptographic 
>signature.
>
>What this signature means or doesn't mean, or what legal consequences it 
>entails, should be for other standards that build on top of the DSS 
>mechanism to decide.
>
>Trevor 
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