April
30, 1998 - Speech Handout, "Proof of WHO,
WHAT and WHEN in Electronic Commerce Under the Digital Signature
Guidelines," by Chas
Merrill of McCarter & English,
for the Grand Cayman Islands Conference on Electronic Commerce, April 30,
1998.
Guideline 5.6 of Digital
Signature Guidelines provides for a rebuttable presumption that
the signature was made by Alice. This piece, used by Merrill for
a series of presentations about the DSG during 1997 and 1998, discusses
how the presumption might be rebutted. Merrill was Co-Reporter (with
Alan
Asay of the Digital Signature Trust Company, and Joe
Wackerman
of the U.S. Postal Service) of the DSG published in 1996.
August 1,
1996 - ABA Information Security Committee (of ABA Section of Science and
Technology) publishes Digital Signature Guidelines, the first
comprehensive legal/technical study of PKI.
See the PKI Tutorial at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-toc.html
and
the free download at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsgfree.html.