| dc.contributor.author | Jones, G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-30T09:23:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-10-30T09:23:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jones , G 2004 , ' Trusted? Third? Parties ' , Hertfordshire Law Journal , vol. 2 , no. 1 . | |
| dc.identifier.other | PURE: 121148 | |
| dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: dbf6cba5-7c31-4cb4-b310-041d3c9eee42 | |
| dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/2516 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/2516 | |
| dc.description | Original article can be found at: http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/schools-of-study/law/hertfordshire-law-journal/home.cfm | |
| dc.description.abstract | To ensure certainty in e-Commerce, a Trusted Third Party can be used to issue certificates, which act as an electronic equivalent to a witness acknowledging and authenticating the identity of the contracting party. The trusted third party issues the certificate which correlates the contracting party to a unique public key, which in turn is used in creating the digital signature. However, the European legislation, in particular, Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures fails to ensure that the certificate is issued by a third party. Therefore a party can act as both a contracting party and a certificate issuer. This causes a conflict of interest, should a dispute arise, as authentication has not been performed by a party independent to those contracting. | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Hertfordshire Law Journal | |
| dc.title | Trusted? Third? Parties | en |
| dc.contributor.institution | Hertfordshire Law School | |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |
