[Gllug] ``Confidential'' .sigs

[Huw Lynes]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:40:29 +0000
Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> nOn Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Simon Wiehe mused:
> >               I am sure the large organisations, especially the one I work
> > for, have spend a lot of time, effort and money on validating the
> > requirements and legality of such a signature.
> 
> Pardon me while I die laughing.
> 
> These sigs are a *classic* sign of cookie-cutter paranoid lawyering:
> `take these bits because they might work, it hasn't been tested in court
> and makes no legal or intellectual sense, but let's do it anyway'.

I'm fairly sure that I've heard that they have been tested in court, and been
found wanting. Can't for the life of me remember what court. Plus IANAL.


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