Legal Aspects of Digital Signatures and Non-Repudiation
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This paper discusses the legal aspects of digital signatures especially in the context of non-repudiation. Non-repudiation is an essential requirement for the full-developed contract law. Traditional maxim pacta sunt servanda (contracts must be fulfilled) could not exist, if the people were always able to deny the binding force of contracts, to repudiate them, if it was in their interest to do so.
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