Digital Signature Standard: Providing a More Secure Way to Authenticate a Signature
Digital signatures are more or less electronic fingerprints and in the form of a coded message, the digital signature safely relates a signer with a document in a recorded transaction. Digital signatures use a standard, accepted format called Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), in order to provide the highest levels of security and universal acceptance. Simply put, they are a particular signature technology implementation of electronic signature or e Signature.
The benefits of adopting digital signatures standard in place of paper-based, wet-ink signatures are but obvious- reducing paper waste, minimize operating costs, speed up document delivery, etc. But what’s cloudy is what happens when you actually utilize a digital signature to a document.
How do Digital Signatures Work?
When a signer electronically signs a document, the signature is created using the private key of the...