ADVISORY/Senate Approves E-Signature Legislation.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 TOPIC: The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation to recognize online signatures as equally binding as those put to paper, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent CNN.com report. The measure allegedly stands a good chance to pass the President's desk without rejection. While not all documents are included in the Bill (notices of termination must still be signed by hand), it has been hailed as a major victory for e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. firms. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Mr. Brady Johnson, Senior Partner at the Law Offices of Brady Johnson, is an expert in internet law. 206/548-9050 brj@fremontlaw.com Mr. Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs O. Wells, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , of b4bpartner, is an attorney with experience in the difference between digital and electronic signatures and the competing technologies for digital signatures. 305/476-0680 PR: Naomi Kayman (nkayman@kcsa.com) Professor Jane Winn of the Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. School of Law is an expert on digital signatures, electronic contracting, jurisdiction and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. . 214/768-2583 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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