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Links: GPO to Use Digital Signatures on Government Documents
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, March 31 @ 21:32:00 EST Legal Technology
In a move seemingly designed to put the 'public' in 'public-key infrasructure,' the Government Printing Office has announced its intent to start authenticating government documents with digital signatures. story (at Government Computer News) is maddeningly vague in many details, but says the program will be launched by mid-summer.

Conspiracy theorists who see government-mandated DRM everywhere, start your engines.

 
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Re: GPO to Use Digital Signatures on Government Documents (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, April 05 @ 14:04:26 EDT
Certainly details on the GPO plan would be nice.

But the idea that Digitally Signing the documents implies that this is the start of a government mandated DRM is ludicrous.

Having government offices digitally authenticate the electronic documents they produce using public key cryptography can only be a good thing. Private industry has been doing it for years!


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