The document, signed DS = legally significant document.
But here came to a head various tricky questions:.
What if the document contains hyperlinks to other documents and Web pages?.
What if the document contains macros that change the content? . e. it remains unchanged and authentic, just displayed differently.
How to deal with compound documents, such as drawings and other formats?.
If the document contains the hidden objects are also considered to be signed?.
In my view it is clear that EDS does not solve all the problems with ensuring authenticity and immutability of the document. Need some other additional mechanism, that would surely provide this same legal value. For example, we signed a contract for its signature, and next morning a tricky macro changes the amount of. Even the most frightened - how can anyone believe when everything is so shaky!.
If you dream, then sees a web service where you can send a file, and it gives back a version in which there is certainly no dirty tricks, signed by your signature ( for greater fidelity ). Again, there is this same ' trusted third party '.
And by the way, we're talking so much about the legal significance and EDS, and such tags and there is still. That started.
