# Signature

`kaal:entity:signature`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `signature`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5886342-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-013) [definitional/asserted] -- A signature under the Codex is defined functionally as the technical proof of the link between an identifier and a piece of digital information, not as a handwritten or format specific formality.
  > (1) The Signature is the technical proof between the Identifier and any Digital Information.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

**2026**

- [7596939-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-014) [condition/stated] -- Cryptographic attestation is evidentiary rather than dispositive of the continuity relation, so a valid signature does not by itself establish that the signing system is the registered subject.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/signature.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.