On Friday 26 April 2002 14:43, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
Slightly off beat this one, but you might be interested in the increasing use/acceptability of digital signatures to sign legal documents.
Thus I have
a) Digitally signed RSC copyright forms with submission of manuscripts, which has been accepted by them b) Digitally signed the Cambridge CSD renewal form, which has just been accepted by them c) I note that the NSF in the USA will REQUIRE all grant applications made to them from June of this year to be so signed d) Noted that the ACS do not so accept copyright transfers, insisting instead on a fax.
The technicalities are simple. Firstly you acquire a digital certificate from Verisign (about $150 and install it into your email program or into eg the your profile of the Windows operating system.
Using it you can sign email (using so called S/MIME email programs, which include Outlook, and the various Netscape messenger programs), Acrobat files or Word XP documents.
How is this different from PGP/GPG signatures? Is it the same? These signitures do not cost me $150 and I can sign and encrypt documents in my email program too... Egon chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)