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'Dematerializing' written proof :French evidence law, cryptography, and the global politics of authenticity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Dematerializing' written proof :
Reminder of title:	French evidence law, cryptography, and the global politics of authenticity.
Author:	Blanchette, Jean-Francois.
Description:	473 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kim Fortun.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 1020.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	History of Science.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3045371
ISBN:	0493593373

'Dematerializing' written proof :French evidence law, cryptography, and the global politics of authenticity.
Blanchette, Jean-Francois.

'Dematerializing' written proof :French evidence law, cryptography, and the global politics of authenticity. [electronic resource] - 473 p.

Adviser: Kim Fortun.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in France between September 1999 and August 2001, this thesis investigates the definition and introduction of electronic signatures within the French legal system, arguing that digital signature technologies enabled diverse social groups to each make a claim to relevance in a global political and economic order powerfully dramatized by the rise of the New Economy. The synergy was especially strong in the case of legislators, as digital signature laws simultaneously affirmed the continuing relevance and efficacy of Nation-States in shaping the future Information Society and endowed digital signatures with a unique social valence, by granting them the same evidential value as handwritten signatures.

ISBN: 0493593373Subjects--Topical Terms:

212526
History of Science.

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