Chapter 17. Legal Issues of Digital Signatures and Encryption

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • The Legal Implications of Digital Signatures: Is a Digital Signature a Legal Signature?

  • Using Digital Certificates with Your Application

  • Encryption and Export Issues

Although this is largely a "how-to" book dealing with security and cryptography for VB programmers, it is very important to understand how the code you write impacts the real world. Achieving technical security is usually not sufficient for most security applications. This is especially true if those applications will be used outside the corporate boundaries or on the Web.

It is important not only to achieve technical security in your solution, but also to achieve legal and financial security. This chapter ...

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