Editing ABA digital signature guidelines

The '''ABA digital signature guidelines'''<ref name="Digital Signature Guidelines">{{cite web|author=American Bar Association|author-link=American Bar Association|first=|date=August 1, 1996|title=Digital Signature Guidelines: Legal Infrastructure for Certification Authorities and Secure Electronic Commerce|url=http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/thedl.cfm?filename=/ST230002/otherlinks_files/dsg.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411143006/http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/thedl.cfm?filename=%2FST230002%2Fotherlinks_files%2Fdsg.pdf|archive-date=April 11, 2017|accessdate=2014-10-01|website=|publisher=American Bar Association}}</ref> are a set of guidelines published on 1 August 1996 by the [[American Bar Association]] (ABA) Section of Science and Technology Law. The authors are members of the Section's Information Security Committee.  

==Overview==
The document was the first overview of principles and a framework for the use of [[digital signature]]s and [[authentication]] in electronic commerce from a legal viewpoint, including technologies such as [[certificate authority|certificate authorities]] and [[public key infrastructure]] (PKI).  The guidelines were a product of a four-year collaboration by 70 [[lawyer]]s and technical experts from a dozen countries, and have been adopted as the model for legislation by some states in the [[United States|US]], including [[Florida]] and [[Utah]].

The Digital Signature Guidelines were followed by the Public Key Infrastructure Assessment Guidelines<ref name="PKI Assessment Guidelines">{{cite web|author=American Bar Association|author-link=American Bar Association|first=|date=May 10, 2003|title=PKI Assessment Guidelines: Guidelines to Help Assessand Facilitate Interoperable Trustworthy Public Key Infrastructures|url=https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/science_technology/2013/pki_guidelines.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012183600/https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/science_technology/2013/pki_guidelines.pdf|archive-date=October 12, 2020|accessdate=2020-10-12|website=|publisher=American Bar Association}}</ref> published by the ABA in 2003.

A similar effort was undertaken in Slovenia by the Digital Signature Working Group (within the [[Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia]] (CCIS)).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.americanbar.org American Bar Association]

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