What is Digital Signature?
The digital signature can be defined as the digital code that has been generated and then authenticated with the help of the public key encryption that is attached with a document that is transmitted electronically in order to verify the contents and then the identity of the sender. The digital signature is a mathematical scheme that is very helping full in order to demonstrate the authenticity of the various types of the digital messages or the various documents. E mudhra in the present scenario is a licensed certifying authority of the India that is responsible for the issuance of the various digital signature certificates. A DSC that is referred to as the digital signature certificate is a very secure digital key that certifies the identity of the holder, issued by a certifying authority (CA). It typically contains your identity which can include the name of the holder, the email of the holder, the country of the holder, the APNIC account name and the public key. A digital signature is not at all digital certificate as for the creation of the digital signature; the signer is required to obtain a digital signature certificate. The digital signature certificate is a digital equivalent that is in the electronic format of the physical or the paper certificates. The digital signature is generally referred to as the digital form of the signature that is equivalent of a hand written signature or the stamped seal, but offering far more inherent security, a digital signature is able to solve the big problem of the tampering and the impersonation in the various types of the digital communications. The digital signatures can provide the added assurances of the evidence to the origin, the identity and the status of an electronic document, the transaction or the message as well as of providing the acknowledgement of the informed consent by the signer. In the today’s times, a large no of the countries including the United States of the America, the digital signatures have been of the same legal significance as the other traditional forms of the signed documents. The printing office of the United States of the America government publishes the electronic versions of the budget, the public and the private laws and the various congressional bills with the help of the digital signatures.