If cyber theft and online frauds are preventing you from taking the digital plunge, here’s the trustworthiness you are looking for — digital signatures.
With digital signatures, you can sign documents online and get the same authenticity as your signature on paper.
As the government moves towards the implementation of e-governance at various levels of functioning, authentication of information becomes a critical requirement. National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier IT organisation of the Department of Information Technology, has been instrumental in promoting important e-governance applications like digital signature and providing the necessary platform for the same.
Digital Signature is analogous to the handwritten signatures and provides the same level of authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation.
It is intended to be unique to the individual and serve as a means to identify, authorise and validate. Digital signatures are created and verified using public key cryptography, which is based on the concept of a unique key pair — private key and public key.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Priti Bajaj
Quelle/Source: Daily News & Analysis, 25.10.2006
