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Re: Utah Licenses Digital Signature Trust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Nov 26 18:20:13 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:29:50 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: Bob Jueneman <BJUENEMAN@NOVELL.COM>
Subject: Re: Utah Licenses Digital Signature Trust
To: DIGSIG@VM.TEMPLE.EDU
I believe that November 19th, 1997, deserves to be noted as the date on
which the state of Utah became the first jurisdiction in the world to
activate a licensed Certification Authority and to give legal force and
weight to the use of digital signatures to sign electronic documents, both
for transactions between the state and the citizens, as well as between the
citizens themselves.
History will decide whether this initiative will be successful, but in the
meantime I believe we should give considerable credit to Governor Levitt and
the Utah State Legislature for their initiative in this area, as well as to
Scott Lowry and the Digital Signature Trust Co. for becoming the first
licensed CA.
Well done.
For further details, cf
http://www.commerce.state.ut.us/web/commerce/digsig/dsmain.htm.
Bob
Robert R. Jueneman
Security Architect
Novell, Inc.
Network Services Division
122 East 1700 South
Provo, UT 84604
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