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GnuPG for Washington State Electronic Notary Public Endorsements

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-a-sign dept.

canopic jug writes:

C.J. Collier posted to the gnupg-users' list about working through the steps to get GNU Privacy Guard approved for Washington State electronic notary public endorsements:

[...] This all seemed to me to be something that GnuPG is designed to do and does quite well. So I sent an email on Friday night to the sender of the letter requesting specific issues that my provider did not comply with. This morning I received a call from the DoL[*], and was able to successfully argue for GnuPG's qualification as an electronic records notary public technology provider for the State of Washington.

In short, GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts < http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.45.140> in the State of Washington!

[*] DoL: WA State Licensing (DOL) Official Site: Home

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @02:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @02:44AM (#736891)

    It means that you don't have to have a physical copy of the documents to be notarized. It also means that the entire document would be notarized, not just the signature page.

    I was shocked when I went to have something notarized and the notary didn't do anything to ensure that the middle pages of the document were secured. Just the end page where I signed. So, if somebody got the document and messed with the middle pages, there'd be no way of knowing that.

    Whereas with this, if the notary signs something like this electronically, they can sign the entire thing, not just the final page. So, if there's any alteration to the document of any sort, then the signature really shouldn't work. Also, it's nice that you're not required to store a physical copy, you can store the digital copy in several different places.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @05:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @05:17AM (#736917)

    Fun fact, my state specifically disallows digital signatures because they either "alter" the originals when appended to them, or are easily lost when a separate file. However, when notarizing either paper or electronic documents, they allow notary stamps to be added to the file, which alter the original, and attaching a notary declaration as a separate sheet, which is easily lost.