Please forgive this rare cross-posting of mine.
Please email any replies to me, and don't post them. Thanks.
Sometime in the last 3 months, I saw a Usenet news article in one of these
newsgroups, in which the writer, a lawyer, was talking abount an
organization to which he belonged. It was some kind of association of
lawyers, possibly a regional bar association. They were trying to set
their own association's rules for the use of email with encryption (e.g.
PEM, RIPEM, etc - things that can do electronic signature and also protect
confidentiality of data).
He explained how lawyers were computerizing more and more, and how they
needed to have some common conventions, and mutual understandings about
the strengths of digital signatures, etc.
Anyway, at the time I read the article, I thuoght it was very interesting,
but I didn't save a copy because I figured I'd never have anything to do
with them. Now I find that a group of lawyers in a neaby city has invited
an associate of mine to come and speak to them about this very same topic.
I'd like to provide my associate with a contact for the person/group behind
that article I read.
I've already checked with "SEA", the Society for Electronic Access, and
was told the article wasn't written by one of them.
Anyway, if you happen to remember this article, and have a copy or remember
the name of the group behind it, I'd really appreciate any info you can
send my way. Thanks.
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Nelson Bolyard nelson(_at_)sgi(_dot_)com Phone: 415-390-1919 Fax:
415-967-8496
Disclaimer: I do not speak for Silicon Graphics.
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