Digital signatures, timestamping and the corresponding infrastructure
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One of the main factors for developing a well functioning legal background for the use of electronic documents as evidence in the court is the presence of a reliable timestamping infrastructure. Many countries are currently working on their national digital signature law. The current paper emphasises some of the problems arised during the work of the committee formed by Estonian State Chancellery to prepare the legal use of electronic documents, mainly concentrating on the work of the research group formed for the developement of timestamping techniques suitable for legal use.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998