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Legal Validity of Electronic Signature

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 4:36 am
by sumaia45
The application of the two types of signature mentioned above, the ArqSign Platform executes the process at the moment the recipient is signing the document, which is a differentiator in the market.

This ensures greater protection of the integrity and authorship of signatures and greater security in legal validity.

Other processes available on the market apply signatures to the document only when all recipients sign or when the document is going to be downloaded.

Consequently, they do not guarantee that the document's costa rica mobile database integrity will be verified with each signature.

The validity of the electronic signature is directly linked to its ability to prove the authenticity, integrity of the document and the acceptance of the parties for electronic signature.

In practice, it is possible to verify the validity of the electronic signature in a document through the file properties.

Thus, when a document is signed electronically or digitally, metadata is inserted into the file that proves the authorship, the integrity of the document and the date of signature.

This metadata includes information such as the signatory's name, email, identification document, the name of the digital certificate used, the date and time of the signature, the IP of the screen used to sign, geolocation, among others.

Therefore, to demonstrate the validity of the electronic signature, you can access the properties of the digitally signed file and check whether the metadata is present and correct.

Furthermore, the validity of the digital certificate used can be verified using specific tools, such as the validation portal provided by the National Institute of Information Technology (ITI).