And how is PGP or bitcoin signing any better?
Not too bright.It is better, because I don't need to send a stool sample to a corporation, in order to receive the signing key.
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Do you ask the court for a subpoena to search all of their records for evidence that they possess the private key that signed your receipt? Or do you think that the judge will take your word for it that you've brought suit against the correct party?
So what the court would do differently, with your digital receipt?
It would go just the same way; whoever signed it can simply testify that someone hacked his server, stole the key and therefore it wasn't him who signed this data.
Or better: the key leaked out through the heartbleed issue. Go ahead and prove that it didn't...
And at that moment the case is closed - you cannot use such a receipt even to wipe up your own ass.
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One nice thing about being an American is knowing that our courts do, for the most part, understand cryptography and digital signatures.
Right... that must be the kind of signatures you use under the death sentences, when executing people all over the world. Shortly before the missile hits a peasant, or his kid, there is a quick and efficient algo, built into the system, that digitally signs the sentence, so they'd get executed in compliance with your very democratic constitution end extremely solid justice system.
