Online Signature Legality for Engineering in Canada: Streamline Your Document Signing Process

How to eSign a document: online signature legality for Engineering in Canada

electronic signatures in digital signatures are similar but they're not synonymous [Music] an eSignature mimics a signature you'd write on a hard copy since the e-sign act of 2000 eSignatures have the same legal standing as handwritten signatures a digital signature is a type of eSignature they're based on public key cryptography or asymmetric cryptography to ensure document integrity digital signatures can provide evidence of origin identity and status of electronic documents transactions or digital messages they vary in three main ways trust an eSignature depends on trusting the person who signs while a digital signature authenticates signers identities and relies on multiple technologies to create verifiable relationships infrastructure an eSignature makes no assumptions about an enterprise's security and is a simple implementation a digital signature though adds layers of security and enables zero trust with upfront costs to the enterprise and use cases eSignatures suit one-time agreements while digital signatures require enrollment and thus better suit teams making multiple agreements [Music]