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Digititized (sic) signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Sat Nov 1 18:49:42 1997
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 16:11:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: cryptography@c2.net
At more and more stores I get asked to sign my credit card slips on little
tablets which clearly digitize and store them. Today's was an NCR tablet
at the Sports Authority, but I've seen other brands elsewhere.
Anyone have any info on what exactly they do with the digitized signature?
The security for the database? Staff in stores always swear up and down
that it's harmless and secure, but when I say no sale if I have to use it,
paper always appears.
A. Michael Froomkin =A0 +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax)
Associate Professor of Law =A0=20
U. Miami School of Law =A0 froomkin@law.miami.edu
P.O. Box 248087 =A0 http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/
Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA =A0 It's quite warm here
