Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents

摘要

What proof do you have to back up that belief? The review appears in the issue of JASIST that you are reading, likely in an online format. The review is attributed to the two authors mentioned in the byline. Yet the possibility exists that this review was written by someone else-possibly for nefarious purposes-and somehow slipped into the publication process without the knowledge or consent of Stanton or Rothke. Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents takes on and analyzes the very issues of authentication and authenticity raised by the questions above. Author Jean-Francois Blanch-ette, currently a faculty member in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, knits together a tangled story of French bureaucracy that illustrates the intrinsic difficulty and complexity of ensuring that digital documents fulfill the same functions (and provide the same essential level of trust) as their paper predecessors.