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>they've been widely adopted in the business world (and, controversially, by President Obama) The link discussed President Obama's use of an Autopen to sign a
by ericcumbee 13y ago
>they've been widely adopted in the business world (and, controversially, by President Obama)
The link discussed President Obama's use of an Autopen to sign a bill. I'm not entirely sure how that is comparable to Digital Signatures.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoAutopen: impersonal and inefficient. The epitome of compromise!
- lwf 13y agoAnd that itself is controversial; apparently the current interpretation of the Constitution requires the bill to be physically signed, although not physically by the president. From http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/3/obama-uses-autopen-sign-fiscal-cliff-bill/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/3/obama-uses-au...: > The OLC said in 2005 that Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution allows the president to use the autopen to sign legislation, stating “the president need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it.”
- jkaljundi 13y agoIt is always strange coming from Estonia with strong crypto based certificate based digital signatures hearing services like Echosign or Hellosign called digital signing, when often people there use writing their name in an input field and the software turning it into a Comic Sans like script being called a digital signature.