Title
Motivations for a theoretical approach to WYSIWYS
Abstract
The statement “What You See Is What You Sign” (WYSIWYS) expresses a functional requirement for digital signatures of electronic documents, in particular when considering legally binding signatures. However this statement is intrinsically wrong. In fact a signer never really sees what he digitally signs, namely the bits of the electronic document, but he sees only one of the possible representations of these bits. This is due to the theory and the technology underlying the actual implementations of the digital signatures. Moreover, while the acronym refers only to the presentation on the signer side, in legal settings the presentation on the recipient side must be also taken into account as well as the relation between the twos.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11552055_38
Communications and Multimedia Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
theoretical approach,signer side,binding signature,legal setting,electronic document,possible representation,actual implementation,functional requirement,recipient side,digital signature
Acronym,Functional requirement,Computer science,Computer security,Electronic document,Implementation,Digital signature,Recipient side
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3677
0302-9743
3-540-28791-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Lioy144453.41
Gianluca Ramunno21019.03
Marco Domenico Aime341.91
Massimiliano Pala4245.46