Consequences of the Legal Significance

Some more conclusions can be drawn from the legal considerations in the preceding section. 

Not only courts, but the whole public should be able to test digital signatures and to judge their security An important principle of states trying to guarantee the rights of 

No so-called trusted third party should be needed in implementations of digital signature sehemes, and in particular, no computerized third party. 

Primarily, this is for the same fundamental reason as the previous point Nobody is completely trusted a priori in constitutional and similar states, in contrast to absolutist ones. Only by mutual control does one hope to achieve that an honest majority prevails. For the same reason, on a larger scale, separation of powers is considered necessary. Moreover, one strives to let individuals act without interference by authorities as much as possible. 

A computerized party is even worse, because at present, any complicated computer system can be misused by not only one, but many people, such as operators, maintenance personnel, and designers. In terms of fault tolerance It is a series system with respect to trust, instead of a parallel system, as the judicial system should be. 

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