On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
However, I recognise the folly of this (and I guess you do as
well). My hope is that when enough people recognise this folly we
will move to something more secure (like PKI).
If you have full PDF tools you can create an actual digital signature
field. The appearance of the field LOOKS like your graphic signature,
but the contents are similar to a PGP-style signature.
You can just as easily scan the real signature and paste it on
things you want that person to sign. So Steve is right.
Ok, I agree and I see what you (and Steve I assume Steve) mean now.
I was trying to compare the security of a scanned signature with
that of a real signature.
What's "real" mean? I have been using the same scanned "graphic"
signature on computer-generated documents for 20 years. In fact,
since an expert could tell they were identical, I suspect I would be
able to make a good mitigating case should it be stolen and misused on
some strange document. And I'm a guy who has never done anything more
than scribble illiterately into credit card machines just to go
through the motions for cashiers.
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