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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
From: |
Philippe Vaucher |
Subject: |
Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 19 May 2020 07:58:46 +0200 |
> > Please, I said 3 times already that YOU JUST TYPE YOUR NAME ON YOUR
> > KEYBOARD, or attach an image. Yes, that's how I did in in Adobe Sign
> > (just typed "Philippe Vaucher" on my keyboard). The only thing it did
> > is the name was displayed using a hand-written font. Surely this
> > cannot be complicated to duplicate. I already said all this.
>
> OK, that is very convenient for the signer, but how can the recipient
> of such a signed document verify this signature? If it is taken at
> face value, I can’t see anything that prevents an adversary from
> typing your name and signing away some of your possessions.
>
> With hand-written signatures, the assumption is that your signature is
> sufficiently complex that another person cannot duplicate it in a way
> that a graphologist wouldn’t detect. With GPG, the assumption is that
> you control your private key and that it cannot be brute-forced in a
> realistic time frame.
As with hand-written signature, you are supposed to check the identify
of the signer prior to that.
Electronically, that means receive a private link through your
verified email that only you can access.
Philippe
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Yuri Khan, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
Philippe Vaucher <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, tomas, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, tomas, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/19