Regulations last checked for updates: May 17, 2024

Title 31 - Money and Finance: Treasury last revised: May 10, 2024
§ 370.39 - To what extent is a digital signature admissible in any civil litigation or dispute?

In asserting a digital signature against you in any civil litigation or dispute, extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent of admissibility (such as testimony about the scientific validity of digital signatures) is not necessary to establish:

(a) That a digital signature corresponds to a specific public key pair, and;

(b) That an electronic message to which the digital signature is affixed has not been altered from its original form.

source: 64 FR 40487, July 26, 1999, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 31 CFR 370.39