...A digitally
signed e-mail may be a good evidence against the originator. But will
it be sufficient to promote Electronic Contracts?
In order to promote use of Electronic Contracts, it is
necessary for both the parties to use Digital Certificates from a
valid Certifying Authority.
What if you want to send a digitally signed e-mail, but the addressee
does not have a digital certificate?
If in such cases, you send digitally signed e-mails and accept
return e-mails which are not digitally signed, the evidence created
can only be against the user of the Digital Signature while the non
user does not create any legally valid electronic evidence for his
offers and acceptances sent through unsigned e-mails.
...What if the
addressee refuses to acknowledge receipt of your digitally signed
e-mail?
If the addressee refuses to acknowledge the e-mails from your end and
maintains that he has never received them, then the digitally signed
e-mail sent by the sender has little value in the court of law
without other supporting evidences.
... Yes, This is
a Problem. But What can be done?
