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Secure digital e-sign
solutions,
Vendors set
sights on signatures.
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As a host of new players embark to stake
their claim in the potentially lucrative Secure digital e-sign
solutions gold mine, a lack of clear standardization in the evolving
technology may tune out overwhelmed customers before they're ever signed
on. If a
digital signature now carries the purchasing validity of a presented
credit card, then different forms of e-signing should be as universally
accepted wherever they are presented, says by partner. "You need some
type of standardization so [users] don't have to carry around 47 digital
signatures from different companies [they] deal with," "There must be a
technologically easy way of using them. That's going to go a very long
way in acceptance of the [Secure digital e-sign solutions]
process."
Secure digital e-sign solutions,
Digital signatures use
PKI to create two separate data "keys": a private key to create the
digital signature and an accessible
public key to verify the signature.
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An Secure digital e-sign
solutions
algorithm called a "hash function" is used in the process to create a
"fingerprint" of the message to assure it has not been modified after
its digital
signing. A digital signature is typically attached or transmitted
with its message. To verify a digital signature, the verifier must have
access to the signer's public key and have assurance that it corresponds
to the signer's private key. Collaboration among
Secure digital e-sign solutions
companies to proactively develop a set of standards to simplify how
customers can give, receive, and verify digital signatures is already
under way. Organizations such as the PKIX Working Group and the newly
formed PKI Forum with Microsoft and IBM within its roster boast some of
the Internet's biggest security companies to tackle the looming
obstacle. New companies with intentions to sidestep
predefined sets of
digital signature industry standards in favor of unique innovations
will find a difficult road, says,
Secure digital e-sign solutions
marketing Technologies.
"It would be very difficult or darn near possible for a start-up to come
along and do something not compatible with the industry," They says. "I
won't promise there's not somebody out there crazy enough to do
something different, but I don't see their business succeeding. Who are
they going to be locked out of [if they do]?" Financial institutions are
proving that standardization doesn't need to be worldwide, but should at
least cover a reasonable customer base. To drive home their point, they
are joining forces through an organization called Identrus to set their
own standards for interoperable PKI and
Secure digital e-sign solutions.
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