From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 03:23:45 +0800
To: nelson@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Electronic Signatures
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On 6 Jun 1996 nelson@crynwr.com wrote:

>  > 
>  > 	The law does not specify how an electronic document must be 
>  > signed, but Barassi and others say it probably will mean coding the text 
>  > and typed signature so they cannot be changed by anyone other than the 
>  > writer.
> 

Before you get all hot under the collar, may I note that I've known
Barassi for more than a year, and he is very technically sophisticated.
Allow for some reporter-garble.   Barassi understands digital signatures
as well as you do.

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