@Large,
Do we have any “notary public” members? Found this info in recent Business Week....
The digital signature most likely to dominate will strongly resemble
the pen-and-ink kind. On May 28, the National Notary Assn., a professional
organization of more than 200,000 notaries, will endorse a new system called
the Electronic Notary Journal of Official Acts (ENJOA).
This will let notaries use computer files instead of paper logbooks to record
their witnessing of official signings. The $550 ENJOA hardware-software package
will save a digital record of the signature along with the notary's records and
supporting information on signers, including digital photos and thumbprint
scans. The heart of the system is Interlink Electronics (LINK )' ePad, a device
that resembles those used to sign credit card transactions at retailers such as
Home Depot (HD ) but which provides greater protections against forgery. Legal
documents themselves remain overwhelmingly paper and will be signed the
old-fashioned way. But the ability of software such as Adobe (ADBE ) Acrobat to
add digital signatures to facsimiles of paper documents means that full
electronic signing is not far off.
Regards T'all,
Jeff Holt
The Tall Tejas Traveler
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