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The DSA, in providing for the licensing and regulation of Certification Authorities, attempts to cater for the rising need for transacting parties over the Internet to ascertain each other's identities and the integrity of the messages. A further effect of this Act is to make a digital signature as legally valid and enforceable as a traditional signature. The CCA has been enacted to ensure that misuse of computers is a criminal offence. The Act makes it an offence for a person(s) to enter or attempt to enter into computers and computer systems without authorisation as well as damage or alter data in computers by planting viruses or other means. It also makes it an offence for anyone to assist the perpetrator(s). Although the Act applies within and outside the country regardless of natio