Agreements: The Technology

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  1. the fingerprint of a proposal (if both parties agree that it need not be non-repudiable)
  2. the fingerprint (as above) plus the digital signature and identity information of the assuring party (q.v.) that is countersigning a proposal already signed by the user
  3. the fingerprint (as above) plus the digital signature and identity information of the user that is countersigning a proposal already signed by the assuring party (q.v.)

Technically, this corresponds to a small piece of metadata in RDF (Resource Description Framework) format that may optionally include a DSig 2.0-compliant signature.


Jim Miller

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