Re: An added E-Mail Issue

    >I asked an author of the Utah Digital Signature Act
    >last week whether encryption, of and by itself, would
    >constitute the legal force of signature.  He said it
    >would.
    
    Hmmmm that seems a little silly to me since anyone can encrypt a message.
    Encryption alone does not provide authentication.

for clarity, he/I meant that if m is encrypted
in your private key then you've acknowledged
authorship

putting it differently, "signing" is a subset
of "encrypting", legally speaking

--dan