Like a site certificate, a digital signature that is purchased from someone verifies that you are who you say you are. There's an id# behind the signature.

A digital signature also encrypts the data and the sender is able to determine if any unauthorized changes have been made. The silanis article (2nd in the list) has a lot of information that will probably cover any questions.

Here are some articles that may help clarify this for you:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...997641033.aspx

http://www.silanis.com/resource-cent...ignatures.html

http://www.docusign.com/g/freetrial/...FQyVFQodnAzEdA I had problems with this site when I tried to access the demos - it could be a bug in Internet Explorer 8

Earlier today I signed up for Echo Sign but the site lacks clarity. It also states that I've used one of my 5 signatures but I haven't signd anything.
www.EchoSign.com/Digital

'Hope some of this helps.

Linda

I agree with you. I read a post asking about this, got to it before I did! What I think most were asking about was a digital stamp. It is different than a digital signature, especially if it does more than what was looked for and may cause confusion.

For those who just scan and make jpegs from handwritten signatures, you may consider importing your jpeg into paint, or something similar, and cleaning up your image thoroughly, including background and inside the letters. Then save as you normally would, creating your signature stamp. Some versions of Adobe have a drop down for creating custom stamps! But my point was that with a general scanned image, all the white space around it is will obscure/ hide anything it touches. So, use the highest resolution for scan and clean up your image to make transparent before you save in Adobe.

Thanks for taking the time to share these resources Linda

I use EchoSign and highly recommend it - it has revolutionlized the way I get contracts of all types reconciled.

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Docusign is another such company. I have used them when we where purchasing our home and was impressed. My realtor was happy with them and was considering using them if and when the time came. They start @ $20 a month, not too bad if your doing enough volume to warrant the expense. I will look into EchoSign.

I too am an Echo Sign Fan. I've been using it for years and what's nice is it's free if you only have a low number of contracts per month (5 per month).

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