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 I will continue from last post and will clarify what a digital signature is and will demonstrate ways of using this technology to validate the identity of a user. The internet is filled with fraudulent villains that can take you or your organization to the cleaners, without you even knowing about it till it’s too late.In this article I will clarify what a digital signature is and will demonstrate ways of using this technology to validate the identity of a user.  The internet is filled with fraudulent villains that can take you or your organization to the cleaners, without you even knowing about it till it’s too late.  Vendors like Verisign and through sell signatures that help you in the validations process giving the transacting party piece of mind.  Knowing that the identity of the 3rd party is verified makes it easier to prosecute if there were to be an issue in the remaining part of the transaction and honoring of the guarantees.  Spam is an area that can be rectified by making digital signatures mandatory and using a net police to prosecute where the illegitimate mail originated from.  Although in some countries it is law to have digital signature to conduct contractual business it is increasingly becoming the way secure business is conducted

What are Digital ID’s?

 

Digital ID signature or certificate is an installed file resident on a computer validates who you are.  Digital signatures are used by programs on the internet and local to the machines to confirm your identity to any third party concerned.  Digital signatures have been confused with electronic signatures.  Electronic signatures are scanned copies of a physical written signature.

When do you need to verify identity?

New ways of verification are being developed daily.  Biometrics and other methods keep getting formulated and incorporated into the information technology industry.  

Digital Signature & Cryptographic?

An introduction to Digital Signatures,

Is a message digest used to cryptographically sign a message, digital signatures rely on asymmetric, or public key, cryptography.To create a digital signature, you sign the message with your private key. The digital signature then becomes part of the message.

This has two effects: