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Why do we still put signatures on everything?

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We have come up with something that's more secure. It's called encryption. You generate a sufficiently long and well implemented private key, and supercomputers couldn't crack your data in the amount of time we have left before the sun burns out. read more

A signature is kind of like locking the knob-portion of a door. Anyone who wants to get in can break in with no trouble, but the act of doing so demonstrates their bad faith in the action. They had to know that what they were doing is wrong, and do it anyway. But that's not really the point of a signature. read more

It pays to investigate what we really trust in hand-written signatures. A signature is the physical manifestation of the will of the signer to acknowledge the contents of what is signed. Most legal systems define that a signature is yours and is binding if and only if "you really did it". read more

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