Governance of anonymous financial services

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#44 Governance of anonymous financial services
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#48 Governance of anonymous financial services

My wife has been gone five years and I've been gone for over a year (they had
corporate re-org in Dec '05) ... and we have no rights/interest ... but they
continue to trickle out
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm

latest today (3Apr2007) ... hot off the press:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=7200749.PN.&OS=PN/7200749&RS=PN/7200749

Method and system for using electronic communications for an electronic contract

Abstract

A method and system for digitally signing an electronic contract document. An electronic
communication contains an identifier, a message, which includes the document, and a digital 
signature generated with a private key of an asymmetric key pair (247). The identifier may be 
used to retrieve a corresponding public key (287) and account information pertaining to the 
sender of the message. The public key may be used to authenticate the sender and the message. 
A device containing the private key may be used to protect the privacy thereof. The device may 
also generate a verification status indicator corresponding to verification data input into the device. The indicator may also be used as evidence that the sender of a contract document performed 
an overt act in causing the electronic communication to be digitally signed. A security profile 
linked to the public key in a secure database indicates security characteristics of the device. 

... snip ...

for a little drift ... slightly related to this recent posting in sci.crypt
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#40 Electronic signature outside Europe

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