1998 Minnesota Statutes

     325K.23 Certificate as acknowledgment. 

    Unless otherwise provided by law or contract, a certificate 
 issued by a licensed certification authority is an 
 acknowledgment of a digital signature verified by reference to 
 the public key listed in the certificate, regardless of whether 
 words of an express acknowledgment appear with the digital 
 signature and regardless of whether the signer physically 
 appeared before the certification authority when the digital 
 signature was created, if that digital signature is: 

    (1) verifiable by that certificate; and 

    (2) affixed when that certificate was valid. 

    HIST: 1997 c 178 s 24