Re: Signatures (manual or digital), was: End of faxing

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anything will be more secure thena a signature on a fax.  It is to easy 
to paste a copy of a signature (either with glue or with a program) and 
send it by fax.  Nobody will tell the difference in the fax.

Adam Glauser wrote:

> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Thread was dealing with the automatic generation of outbound faxes vs
> > email.
> >
> > I think there will still be a use for traditional fax machines
> > for those papers that need to be signed and sent back, and similar
> > items of that genre.
>
> Do you think that digital signatures will make any headway in the near 
> future?  Digital signatures provide all of the same services as manual 
> signatures, that is non-repudiation, authentication and integrity.  In 
> some cases, it seems to me that digital signatures would be more secure 
> than physical signatures.
>