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secure2sign for Microsoft Office Word: Digitally Sign Word Documents and Forms
What is a Digital Signature?
A digital signature is the equivalent of a handwritten signature that can be used to sign a digital document on a computer or online. To be effective the digital signature must simulate the security and identity properties of a handwritten signature. This is a powerful and necessary capability in today’s business environment where organizations find themselves signing an ever expanding number of documents across organizations and geographic boundaries. Most importantly, these signatures need to be legally binding and non-repudiable – meaning the signer cannot deny that they were the person who signed the document. To give digital signatures, legal weight, a number of legislative measures have been developed to allow the legal adoption of digital signatures, giving them the same status as wet signatures. These measures include in the USA, Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (eSign) and in the European Union the EU Directive on Electronic Signatures.
Why Use Digital Signatures?
Digital signing significantly streamlines business processes. The documents no longer need to be printed, signed and mailed or faxed back - making it possible to create workflow systems that push documents along the signing process, maintain an audit trail of signatures, and greatly reduce paper consumption as well as costs of transmission and storage.
secure2sign Digital Signatures for Word
secure2sign For Microsoft Office Word allows you to digitally sign a Microsoft Office Word document or form using a digital certificate to identify the signatory.
secure2sign supports the application of multiple signatures on a document as well as sectional signing – both features are requirements if a document is to be part of a workflow process involving multiple parties.
secure2sign also allows signatories to apply a time-stamp, at the time of signing. The features of secure2sign include:
- Support for multiple signatures
- Sectional signing - separate the document into sections that can independently signed
- Apply signature fields to a document to direct the signing
- Link a signature field to a individual – only they can sign the field
- Link a signature field to a section of a document
- Add a time stamp to RFC3161 standard
- Apply signing policies to a document
- Apply global signatures to entire document
- Apply a counter signature – allows a check of the certificate status of all other signatures before applying a final signature
- Validation of digital certificate on signing
