Burdens of Proof Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents

Name: Burdens of Proof Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents
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ISBN: 9780262017510

ISBN-10: 0262017512

ISBN-13: 9780262017510

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean-Franï¿½ois Blanchette

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The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities affects almost every dimension of contemporary life. From health records to ballots, almost all documents are now digitized at some point of their life cycle, easily copied, altered, and distributed. In Burdens of Proof, Jean-François Blanchette examines the challenge of defining a new evidentiary framework for electronic documents, focusing on the design of a digital equivalent to handwritten signatures.From the blackboards of mathematicians to the halls of legislative assemblies, Blanchette traces the path of such an equivalent: digital signatures based on the mathematics of public-key cryptography. In the mid-1990s,…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Introduction



Communication in the Presence of Adversaries



On the Brink of a Revolution



The Equivalent of a Written Signature



Written Proof



Paper and State



The Cryptographic Imagination



Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index