The Research Of Electronic Signature And Authentication Law

Any revolution of science and technology may cause changes of the law and economy. So is the same with the production and development of information technology. The popularization and extension of computers and the Internet provides physical foundation for the further development of economy. More and more economic activities are being completed on the Internet. And the network economy has become an economy form that can bring a lot of tremendous economy advantages through being a fictions area. More and more businesses are being done in the form of EDI and what we usually call "Electronic commerce" and other forms in international trade. And theses forms use methods of storage and communication which differs from the traditional methods that are based on paper. The rapid progress of modern IT and network economy brings hope for both the increase of economy and the development of society. But it also brings a lot of new problems to the society. The present legal systems can not deal with these new problems, for the presence of the network economy leads to concussions and challenges to it. So it becomes necessary to use network laws to regulate these activities."Electronic signature" means data in electronic form in, affixed to or logically associated with, a data message, which may be used to identify the signatory in relation to the data message and to indicate the signatory's approval of the information contained in the data message. Both parties may not see each other...