By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2010-11-22 01:58:05 | Word Count: 391
Digital signatures are used to secure the document from being forged. Documents with digital signatures cannot be tampered and thus secured and safe. Documents with digital signature are easily identified by the recipient. Any imitation while transmission is recognized by the receiver. Documents with digital signatures help both parties to save unnecessary face to face contact and discussion. Hence the veracity of the document is maintained for all purposes.
Many school students forge their school reports as they are written manually and digital signatures prevents such nuisance. But never state your private key to anyone otherwise there is every chance that it may be mis-utilized. Thus it have its uses and misuses.
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Advantages: Digital signature use eradicates the chance of misuse by unauthorized persons. Sans forgery the document is safe. The receiver can understand the source of the message from which it is sent and satisfies himself that he has received the genuine message. Many countries permit digital signatures in legal documents.
Disadvantages: In business organizations you have to pay out money to get certificates from the authorities and obtain verification software.
Digital signature is an electronic signature representing your hand signature in an image mode. This signature cannot be duplicated or repeated by anyone as the email ID. This signature can be shifted and carried by you wherever you travel in your laptop. When your document is sent to a person the recipient converts the document by using software. Digital signatures are safe and secured when you do business dealings online.
The basic confirmation that the digital signature provides is its authenticity and veracity. By authentication it means the source generating the message is identified and is particularly secured in financial matters.. With this facility the sender and the receiver are guaranteed that the communication is as it is and not forged or altered at any period during transmission. Today encrypted messages are also vulnerable to de-codification in certain cases. A document with digital signatures, if altered at any juncture then the signature becomes invalid.
By using digital signature you save time, retain document integrity, simple to use and you can sign document on the move. This will facilitate you to provide better and efficient service to your client and customers.
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