First off, I know nothing about digital signitures, but couldn't you use the
same email for all transmissions and eliminate the multiple signitures,
Secondly, keep archives of emails that send out the files to prove what they
may have gotten. If transfered by disk, you could set up a location where a
record of everything sent out is kept for future reference.
Just some thoughts from an uneducated person in this issue.
Mark
"Charles Prettyman" wrote in message
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> I tested it briefly. Had the bosses gone for it, I would have liked to
> implement it office wide. Basically, you sigh up with Verisign, or some
> other digital signature company, and they will create a digital signature
> based on your email address. You can then use the digital signature
> extension to attach that signature to any drawing. Once you've done that,
> if anyone ever changes the drawing, the signature gets broken.
>
> The reason that we didn't implement it office wide comes down to an
> implementation of standards issue. According to our liability insurance
> broker (and my limited knowledge of liability issues leads me to agree
with
> this) using something like a digital signature to reduce liability is only
> effective if it can be implemented 100%. Otherwise, the one and only time
> you nd up in court over the question of "did someone modify this drawing"
> the other side will simply say: "how do we know that they signed this one,
> since they do not sign everything." Personally, I thought that signing
> everything was the answer, but there are bigger battles to fight first.
>
> Getting a digital signature from verisign is pretty easy, but there is a
> fee. When I did it there was a free trial, but after 90 days, or
something
> like that, you will pay. Sinc eht esignature is associated with your
email
> addess, we would have neeed to get one signature per address, which would
> add up. It's not a huge amount, but it is one more expense, and there is
> some administrative overhead required to cancel accounts as people leave,
> and add new accounts, etc.
>
> Once you have the digital signature from Verisign, or whoeer, you are not
> limitied to using it on drawings only, you can digitally sign anything.
>
>
> "Daryl Henderson" wrote in message
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> > Attn:
> > Has anyone used the Digital Signature from Point-A? How does it work
with
> or
> > on your projects?
> >
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