All sail, no anchor II: Acceptable high-end PKI.

The conflict between accepted modern cryptographic approaches to digital signatures and the venerable traditions of the law of signatures and the law of contracts has been well expounded over the last few years. During this year, hardware progress in public-key encryption has made it possible largely to bridge the gap between these two realms. This paper shows one way to do so. This is a promising time for cryptographic work on digital signatures, as well as for joint legal/cryptographic consideration of outstanding signature issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]