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RAIN 06/29: Digital handshakes



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CNET News 6/26/00
"Handshake" firm hopes to end paper-pushing
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2152304.html

by Stefanie Olsen
With the digital signature bill before President Clinton, a new company is
jockeying to make the process for completing forms online a reality.
Orem, Utah-based iLumin today is launching its "digital handshake"
technology, which will work with digital signatures to complete all the
paperwork normally pushed around in offices.
The privately held company said it has raised $20 million in third-round
funding from Deutsche Bank Alex Brown and Rock Creek Ventures. And it has
signed partnerships with more than 40 technology partners, including Cisco
Systems, Microsoft, VeriSign, RSA, Entrust and Baltimore Technologies.


Information Week 6/26/00
Ilumin lets companies seal deals with digital handshakes
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20000626S0005

by Cheryl Rosen
Neatly timing its release with the passage of the Electronic Signatures Act
by Congress this month, iLumin Corp. today debuted a "digital handshake"
system that lets businesses and individuals privately and securely view,
sign, and store electronic documents.
The goal of the product is to allow all parties involved in electronic
commerce to finish what they begin with an enforceable online transaction
drawn up in real time. "The Internet is the highway, and digital signatures
are the keys to the car," says Brent Israelsen, iLumin's president and CEO.
In the government sector alone, the technology will allow the automation of
legal documents generated by 90 million cases in 17,000 courts to be
electronically signed, filed, and stored.


Huntsville Times 6/27/00
Voice from the past saves a park
Deed restriction stalls city's plan to modify Five Points intersection
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Jun2000/27-e15092.html

by Keith Clines
The city has decided not to build a turn lane on Pratt Avenue in Five Points
after learning that the property it was to cross was deeded to the city with
the stipulation that it stay a park.
The city engineer's office planned to install a lane to turn from Pratt
Avenue to Holmes Avenue, then close Dement Street at Pratt Avenue.
But that was before a descendant of Willard I. and Helen L. Wellman brought
to the city's attention the 1915 deed by which the Wellmans gave the
property to the city. The deed states that the property is to be used as a
public park or it reverts back to the Wellmans or their heirs.



Deseret News 6/27/00
Digital handshake reduces costs
Orem-based Ilumin specializes in online transaction services
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175015411,00.html?

by Lois M. Collins
Catherine Meyn speaks enthusiastically of a day when someone will be able to
apply for and receive even large loans, like a mortgage loan, without ever
having to leave home.
A seller in Utah and a buyer in Hawaii - or Texas or Timbuktu - will be able
to complete a land deal.
Government applications, contracts, legal documents, court filings and other
types of business can all be conducted in cyberspace, the results secure,
legally binding and paper free.
That day, for the most part, is now, she said.



Las Vegas Sun 6/26/00
World War II Crime Data is Studied
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-other/2000/jun/27/062700102.htm
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of a commission trying to identify and declassify
millions of World War II documents on possible war crimes say they might
finish work on Nazi Germany by October 2001, but will need at least another
year to review files on Japan.
More than halfway through the commission's three-year task, at least 70
percent of documents remain secret, members told Congress on Tuesday.
Slowing the search is the need to clear some documents with other
governments, as well as CIA, FBI and Pentagon resistance to any "bulk
declassification" of files even though they are now half a century old.
Those agencies insist, however, that their page-by-page, and sometimes
line-by-line declassification procedures are moving along rapidly.


Billings Gazette 6/27/00
State won't fight coal tax records ruling
http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/20000628_r4coal.html

Associated Press
HELENA (AP) - The state Revenue Department will not ask the Montana Supreme
Court to reconsider its ruling last week that an agency policy making some
coal severance tax records confidential is unconstitutional.
Revenue Director Mary Bryson said Tuesday that no petition for rehearing
will be filed, despite the department's concern about how broad the court
decision may be interpreted
The fact the ruling was unanimous makes remote the likelihood of a rehearing
request being successful, she said.



Financial Times 6/28/00
Kohl-era files 'lost or altered'
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3D8MID1AC&liv
e=true&tagid=ZZZGXV4R00C&subheading=global

by Haig Simonian in Berlin
Large numbers of sensitive official files about controversial transactions
under former German chancellor Helmut Kohl have disappeared or been
manipulated, a special investigator said on Wednesday.
Among the most explosive of Burkhard Hirsch's statements was confirmation
that documents on Leuna and Minol, the former East German petrochemicals
groups privatised during Mr Kohl's time in office, had vanished or have been
manipulated.
It has been alleged that the multi-billion D-Mark sale of Leuna and Minol to
France's Elf group was accompanied by large-kickbacks.



The Independent 6/29/00
Kohl's files destroyed after CDU lost election
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-06/kohl290600.shtml

by Imre Karacs in Berlin
The scandal surrounding Helmut Kohl's fundraising activities took a sinister
turn yesterday, when it was revealed that government files were deliberately
destroyed during his last days in office.
About two thirds of the data stored on the Chancellery computers was erased
soon after Mr Kohl lost the elections in September 1998, an official
investigator reported. The operation to wipe off three gigabytes of data,
equivalent to about 1.2 million sheets of typed paper, began three days
after his defeat.



San Francisco Examiner 6/28/00
How I spent my summer vacation
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/28/
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by Rob Morse
Examiner Columnist
WE STARTED almost reverently, carefully negotiating which family photograph
should go to which brother or sister. But four days into cleaning out our
parents' house, my brother Jamie was passing out old family photographs like
a blackjack dealer.
"Papa with a fish," Jamie said, tossing a picture of our grandfather holding
a salmon onto my sister Pam's pile.
"Papa with two fish, Papa with a string of fish, Papa in a boat," he said as
he dealt more photographs to the three of us.



Nando Media 6/28/00
Kohl officials accused of destroying records
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500221783-500317068-501781068-0,0
0.html

by Tony Czuczka
Associated Press
BERLIN (June 28, 2000 9:39 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Officials
in Helmut Kohl's former administration systematically removed files that
could have been used to determine whether his government traded favors for
cash, Germany's governing Social Democrats charged Wednesday.
The latest accusations of criminal conduct came a day before Kohl's
much-anticipated testimony to a parliamentary investigating committee. The
committee was scheduled to ask Kohl about illegal donations he accepted in
the 1990s.


Modesto Bee 6/28/00
Data-erasing software named after disgraced former chancellor Kohl
http://www.nandotimes.com/24hour/modbee/technology/story/0,1660,500221838-50
0317163-501782225-0,00.html

Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany (June 28, 2000 12:19 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com)
- It's an honor Helmut Kohl would probably rather do without.
A new program designed to wipe out computer files is named after the former
chancellor - a play on allegations that his government destroyed records
that could show whether political favors were traded for money.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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