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Digital signature is soon bound to be accepted as proof of the signer's commitment
on a document as was handwritten signature. Many countries in the Northern hemisphere
are enacting laws to permit their citizens to use digital signature and thus develop
electronic commerce. There are two ways to digitally signing documents:
1- Encrypted digital signature. 2- Simple hand written signature.
To perform encrypted digitally
signed document (Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel document, etc.) you
need a dedicated software - like Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) from Network Associates
International or Verisign' software - which generates a string of algorithm -
standing as your signature - hard to decipher by a third party and only to be
checked and verify by your correspondent equipped with the right key.
Until now to hand sign a document on your computer you need to install additional
hardware and perform a transfer to the document; There is now the possibility
to stamp your Microsoft Word 97 / 2000 or Excel 97 / 2000 documents - right away
from the application - with a handwritten signature; without any additional hardware.
That handwritten signature cannot be forged and is so tightly embedded in the
signed document that any attempt - by a third party - to modify the original wording
of said document results in the initial signature' stamp being question marked
and easily noticed by the receiver.
The
little software which makes you apposed a secured handwritten signature on your
Word 97/ 2000 or Excel 97 / 2000 documents - and impress your correspondent -
is available for free at this link.
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