Document signing certificates provide trusted assurance of authentication for electronically transmitted documents by validating author and document.

A digital signature uses a secure digital key that certifies the identity of the author of a digital message or document.

Document signing certificates provide trusted assurance of authentication for electronically transmitted documents by validating author and document. Digital certificates give customers confidence that the received documents originate from the recognized source and have not been forged or tampered with.

What is Digital Signature

Digital Signatures or Digital Signing Certificate (DSC) are no less than real hand signatures marked on paper, but digital signatures are much better than hand made signatures. A digital signature can not be tempred, forged or copied, its like a safe key in your hand. A digital signature has legal validity in many countries like USA, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Switzerland and the countries of the European Union. A digital signature can be verified by receiver and it make sure that the message or document is not altered or changed in any manner.

A digital signature can be used to sign almost any kind of document including a simple piece of text or a email. Signing a document or email not require any specific professional kowledge, any person using computer for email can sign the documents easily. Now a days Digital signatures are also distributed with some softwares which are using networ connection like some FTP software and some local network communicationg apps. People are using their email client like outlook etc to sign and encrypt their email message.

In USA India and European countries digital certificates are widely used in government offices. In India certificate called Digital Signing Certificate (DSC) is widely used for e-filing the business related documents and filing income tax return etc.