Digital signature

Challenges and opportunities

Business processes based on the Internet, email and electronic documents help reduce operational costs and increase productivity. However, these benefits can be negated by the time and expense of relying on “wet” signatures for validation and approval purposes.

Digital signatures ensure the authenticity of documents exchanged through the Internet and enterprise networks. Because they validate the signer’s identity and integrity of the information, they can also be used for secure electronic transactions that are legally binding and non-reputable.

 

Overview

  

Benefits
Gemalto smart card devices together with our middleware or Microsoft’s PKI infrastructure are used for digital signatures. The document is signed by the author’s smart card device using a digital certificate that binds a public key with a secure identity credential. The signature is validated through a chain back to a trusted Certificate Authority server.

  • Data formats: Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, text, html, RTF and more
  • Verification features: Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) validation, time stamping
  • Support for Java Card and Microsoft .NET technologies
  
  • Enables electronic, paperless and legally binding business transactions
  • Improves productivity, workflow and process efficiency
  • Reduces operational costs of paper-based transactions
  • Leverages a common internal identity management framework
     

 

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