From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:17:50 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Clipper III analysis
Message-ID: <199606070506.WAA20841@toad.com>
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On 29 May 1996 14:53:30 pdt, tcmay@got.net 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.

I believe he was referring to document analysis. By closely comparing a questionable work 
with those of known authorship, a skilled analyst can hopefully find enough 
[dis]similarities to say whether a document was authored by a given person.

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