{"data":{"id":"us/31-cfr-370.39","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"31 CFR 370.39","heading":"To what extent is a digital signature admissible in any civil litigation or dispute?","body":"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:\n(a) That a digital signature corresponds to a specific public key pair, and;\n(b) That an electronic message to which the digital signature is affixed has not been altered from its original form.","path":["Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Money and Finance","CHAPTER II—FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY","SUBCHAPTER A—BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE","PART 370—ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS AND FUNDS TRANSFERS RELATING TO UNITED STATES SECURITIES","Subpart D—Electronic Submission of Transaction Requests Through the Bureau of the Fiscal Service"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-31.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:25Z","sha256":"051f0d94b36457a2676c31c90164ff27023bec7414b23d64fe84e1332193d976","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/31-cfr-370.38","next":"us/31-cfr-370.40"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}