AUTHENTICATION RULES AND ELECTRONIC RECORDS

The growth of electronic commerce and record-keeping has led to unique problems related to the authentication of electronic signatures and other key information . Electronic documents provide new challenges to the old paper based legal authentication rules. The modernization of legal authentication regimes must accommodate electronic records, yet respond to concerns related to security and reliability. Time and technology will tell if new legislation promotes the traditional values of authentication rules or if it will need to continue to change to meet the true needs of the increasing numbers of users of electronic records.