Authentication is the provision of assurance of the claimed identity of an entity [ISO/IEC 10181-2]. In order to guaranty the success of an exchange and whether at the origin or at the receiving end of the message, exchanging parties must be authentified before the process is initiated. This allows answering two fundamental questions, often forgotten in the “traditional” electronic exchanges:
1- Is the recipient I’m about to send this information really the one I think he is?
Peer entity authentication: The corroboration that a peer entity in an association is the one claimed [ISO 7498-2]
2- Does this message really comes from the person it says it does?
Data origin authentication: The corroboration that the source of data received is as claimed [ISO 7498-2]
We offers you the tools to easily obtain guaranties (with full legal value) on your correspondents’ identity.
Document authentication
To ensure a document authentication, a signature should identify what is signed, making it impracticable to falsify or alter either the signed matter or the signature without detection. Again, the provides easy way to apply your electronic signature to any content attached to your envelope.
Signer authentication and document authentication are tools used to exclude impersonators and forgers and are essential ingredients of what is often called a ” non-repudiation service” in the terminology of the information security profession.