Electronic record authentication permits subscribers to use digital signatures, with verification through their unique public and private key pair.

Section 3 permits a subscriber to authenticate an electronic record by affixing a digital signature. Authentication uses an asymmetric cryptosystem and hash function that transforms the initial electronic record. The hash function must consistently produce the same hash result for the same input while making reconstruction of the original record and matching results for two records computationally infeasible. Any person may verify the record using the subscriber's public key, which, with the unique private key, forms a functioning key pair.

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