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Global Status Report on PKI Legislation

Overview Recent years have seen much new legislation that governs the way that companies and consumers do business in electronic environments. Not wanting to hinder the development of this significant economic area, governments all over the world have introduced (or are in the process of introducing) legislation that will change the face of global commerce. In the process, the electronic signature has made much progress towards gaining the same legal recognition as its hand-written, paper-based counterpart.

This paper seeks to track these developments by providing a country-by-country overview of the legislative issues that are of importance for wireless Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

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Publisher	Radicchio	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2000
Format	White Papers
Topics	PKI

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