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Context for Analysis (Steve to provide)
Evaluation Criteria
- EaseUsability: ease-of-use consistent with typical commercial online transactions such as consumer banking or personal investor securities trading
- Portable Implementabilty: portable e-signature capability, not tied to a particular Internet access device or particular type of access device (rules out a signature digitizing pad, fingerprint reader, etc.)
- LowAffordability: low-cost or no-cost to the end user, cost to agency appropriate for business value delivered
- Accountability Risk Mitigation: accountability appropriate to mitigate business risk - which is a function of confidence in the original identity assertion (was the registrant who they claimed to be?), the chain of custody of the identity credentials (did the registrant maintain sole custody of the secret key), the integrity of the signed document (is the document in evidence exactly the same document that was signed?), and the legal framework of the e-signature (is the signature legally binding?).
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