Data in electronic form which are attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and which serve as a method of authentication (Article 2 of 93/1999/EC).
How Digital Signature Technology Works
Digital signature technology generally surpasses paper technology in all these attributes. To understand why, one must first understand how digital signature technology works.
Digital signatures are created and verified by cryptography, the branch of applied mathematics that concerns itself with transforming messages into seemingly unintelligible forms and back again. Digital signatures use what is known as “public key cryptography,” which employs an algorithm using two different but mathematically related “keys;” one for creating an electronic signature (in other words transforming data into a seemingly unintelligible form), and another key for verifying a digital signature or returning the message to its original form.
Even so this is the most commonly accepted way to produce an electronic signature, it is not the only one. evidencecube supports all known types of electronic signature: its technology-dependent architecture ensure the compatibility of the service to future digital signature implementations.