A digital signature certificate is an electronic document and consists of digital signature of authority which issues the certificate, and it binds together the public key with an identity and can be used to verify a public key belonging to a particular individual or organisation.
The information technology act, 2000 allows usage of digital signature on documents submitted in electronic form so that to ensure the security and authenticity of documents which are filed electronically. This is a very safe way in which a document can be submitted electronically.
A person can only use the digital signature certificate issued to him. It is illegal to use the electronic signature of any other person. The digital signature certificates are issued with a validity of one or two years they can be renewed after the expiry.
Pricing of digital signature
Costing includes the cost of a medium, which is the cost of issuance of digital signature certificate and the renewal cost after the period of validity. The representatives of company and professionals who are required to obtain Digital signature certificates are free to procure the same from any one of the approved certification agencies as per the information technology act. The issuance cost of digital signature certificate may vary and it depends on the market.
So digital certificates are electronic ‘ credit cards ‘ which help in establishing credentials while doing business or any financial transactions on the web. These are issued by the certificate authority and they consist of the users name, a serial number, expiry date, a copy of the certificate holders public key, and the signature of the authority which is issuing the certificate. So that the recipient can verify that the certificate is real. Some of the digital signature certificates conform to the standard X 509. These digital certificates should be kept in registries, so that the users can look for the public keys of the other users.
The time taken by the certificate authorities in issuing the digital signature certificate may vary from three to seven days. And the digital signatures are legally admissible in a court of law, as provided under the provisions of information technology act.
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How to use Infopath Signature
When designing a form template, you can specify if the users can add when they fill out a form based on the form template. It can also be specified whether the users can sign the whole form or just part of the form. If infopath signature is enabled, so that they can be added to part of the form, it must be determined, which data form can be signed. You can associate additionally that data with a section that you add to the template.
If the Microsoft office outlook 2007users send a copy of an Infopath as an e-mail message to the other user of same platform, and that is set to run at the full trust security level, the associated form template must be signed with a digital signature , so that it works properly.
To add digital signature to a form template, an Infopath signature is required as discussed earlier. The digital certificate can be obtained through a commercial certification authority or from the internal security administrator. The decision to purchase depends upon how widely the organisation plans to deploy form templates.
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