On 26th March 2001 the Knesset approved the Electronic Signature Law, 5761-2001 on second and third reading. The Law regulates the evidential status of electronic signatures, lays down the effect of electronic certificates (which confirm that a person has a particular signature verification device - the on-line equivalent of an identity document) and provides how a certification authority, which issues electronic certificates, should act.
Coincidentally, only a few days earlier Verisign, which holds 97% of the electronic certificate market around the ... Read more
Secrets have special standing in Israeli law. As the Supreme Court has stated: "There are those who view the trade secret as property... and others view it as 'quasi-property' or a proprietary interest... Nevertheless, it would appear that everyone accepts that the trade secret does 'exist' in law and that the law provides means to protect against its exploitation without the agreement of the person entitled to it" (HCJ 1683/93, Yavin Plast Ltd v. The National Labour Court). It is ... Read more
Alongside its traditional military and defence applications, encryption is used in modern communications to encode cellular phone calls; for the security of information sent from Internet browsers to e-commerce sites; the protection of intellectual property in computer files; the management of virtual networks that link remote sites by the Internet; the verification of contracting parties' identities; the security of computer data; etc., etc. In practice, the Internet is inconceivable without encoding and encryption but, nevertheless, the development, production, export and ... Read more
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