From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:57:55 +0800
To: jonathon <grafolog@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Clipper III analysis
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At 5:54 AM 5/29/96, jonathon wrote:

>        A good Questioned Document Examiner will be able to demonstrate
>        that the signed document in question was not authored by Joe
>        Blow, even if it contains his digital signature.

I was of course talking about digital signatures, not handwritten signatures.

I would be very interested to hear how a "Questioned Document Examiner" can
possibly determine that a digital signature was not applied by a particular
person.

--Tim May

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