The recent meeting of October 7, 1998 of the OECD Member states ministers on the unresolved issues of electronic commerce (in particular on the legal validity and effects of electronic documents and digital signatures) highlights indirectly the advanced Italian regulation on electronic documents (defined as "the computer-based representation of legally relevant acts, facts or data"). The main provisions of Italian regulation are contained in the Presidential Decree no. 513 of 10 November 1997, centered on digital signatures and their certification, privacy issues and electronic records.
The law entrusts AIPA (the Authority for Information Technology applied to Public Administration) with the task of defining technical standards to be used in all electronic transactions, whilst ensuring an open attitude towards the standards to be used for that end. As an effect, digital signatures may be performed in different ways, not only with the "asymmetric keys" method, but also with the
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