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Introduction
This presentation is all about digital signatures, its benefits, its importance, its characteristics, its requirements, its component etc also compares digital signatures with few other types of signature. Various activities and steps involved in digitally signing any document and finally will describe the steps and benefits of the on box solution i.e. CoSign.
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Digital Signatures???
Digital signatures are used to authenticate the contents of electronic documents in the same way as a signature is used to authenticate a document i.e. paper-based signing to a digital fingerprint This fingerprint
is unique to both the signer and the document cannot be reused or reassigned to anyone else at any time authenticates the originator ascertains the integrity of the message protects against forgery

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Digital Signatures
Digital signatures help organizations to sustain

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Digital Signatures vs. Electronic Signatures

Digital Signatures Result of a cryptographic operation . Technology that is used Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Electronic Signatures Electronic images are physically or logically attached to the signed data

More secure towards data integrity and non-repudiation of transactions.

Easy to forge

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CoSign????
CoSign is simple-to-use and quick to deploy, digitalsignature solution, while ensuring protection against signature forgery. It supports digital signatures in various applications like Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, TIFF images and leading Content Management Systems.

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CoSign
Digital and Graphical signatures

CoSign introduces a solution that merges both digital technologies and electronic graphical signatures. In this way the solution provide both visual identification(image) of the signer using his visual graphical signature as well as digital signatures .

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Technology behind CoSign Digital Signatures

CoSign uses Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) for generating digital signatures. In PKI (asymmetric cryptography) each user has a key pair, a private key and a public key. As the name suggest the private key is solely kept by the signer while his public key is available to all, whosoever want to validate his signature. The owner of the private key digitally signs electronic information, while the holders of the corresponding public key use it to verify the authenticity of the signature. A cryptographic function known as hashing is used for both creating and validating a digital signature.

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Technology behind CoSign Digital Signatures

The hast function-an algorithm uniquely creates a fingerprint which is appended to the message which is being sent to the recipient. In case if any changes are made to the message it will reflected as corrupted digital signature. It also authenticates the user be a Certification Authority (CA).

There must be a proper way of managing these key-pair and CoSign provides such facility.

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PKI digital signatures vs. CoSign

PKI based solutions are expensive and difficult to deploy as it consists many component so integrating them is a complex, lengthy and prohibitive process. While Cosign provides a cost effective and easy to use solution to the problems with the PKI based solutions.

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CoSign: all components of PKI in one box

CoSign offers ALL the components of a digital-signature solution in just one box.
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Benefits of implementing digital signatures

CoSign Security and Compliance Benefits Guarantee document security Ensure signer identity. Ensure data integrity of documents and transactions. Provide Non-repudiation of documents and transactions. Ensure greater legal compliance and employment of worldwide regulations. Provide audit trail. Enable verification of document source. CoSign business Benefits Streamline business processes. Increase employee productivity and efficiency. Facilitate a paperless environment. Eliminate the risk of misappropriation of intellectual property. Easy deployment of digital signatures. Quick ROI. Significant cost savings. e-archiving. Easy access to information.

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Conclusion
As more and more business activities are going online and adopting advance techniques their security, authenticity are few of the major concern areas. There are many solutions to these issues but going for the best one which is also aligned with the business concern like cost minimization, flexible, easy to use etc. is must.

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