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Digital Ink Signatures - Concepts and Technologies
White Papers One of the oldest methods of authentication is pen-based signatures - from the feather quill pen of old to the digital stylus of today, people have been using written signatures to indicate their intentions or approval for thousands of years.
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
Electronic signatures struggling in Europe
News ID card programmes and e-government initiatives are hoped to spur the development of an electronic signatures market across the EU, according to the European Commission. The Commission is concerned that low take up of e-signatures across Europe is...
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
Spammers try fooling filters with digital signatures
News The trick was noted on several security lists, as the number of junk email messages sporting digital signatures has apparently increased. Digital signatures are used in email to attest to the validity and integrity of an email message; any changes...
[October 13, 2003, 9:40]
Tutorial: Understanding Electronic and Digital Signatures
White Papers Through 2010, 75% of organizations with requirements to use electronic signatures as part of their business processes will choose low-cost, low-technology signing solutions. Cryptographic digital signatures will be selected only if required by...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Digital Signatures for Kernel Modules on Systems Running Windows Vista
White Papers Certain configurations of x86 systems will require kernel-mode software to have digital signatures in order to access next generation premium content depending on content protection policy. For Microsoft Windows Vista and later versions of the...
[November 22, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Network Forensics: Identifying Attack Signatures (Level 200)
White Papers Learning the signatures of the breach traffic is also the first step in blocking it at bordering devices or at the desktop. The presenter of this webcast begins by displaying numerous trace files indicating network reconnaissance is underway on a...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Honeycomb - Creating Intrusion Detection Signatures Using Honeypots
White Papers This paper describes a system for automated generation of attack signatures for network intrusion detection systems. The system successfully created precise traffic signatures that otherwise would have required the skills and time of a security...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Java XML Digital Signatures
White Papers This paper provides an introduction to XML digital signatures and to the Java XML Digital Signatures APIs (JSR 105). Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology is now an integral part of web-based business applications.
[September 27, 2006, 1:00]
CoSign Digital Signatures for Healthcare
White Papers Physicians, nurses, health plan providers and other professionals in the healthcare industry are often buried under tons of paperwork requiring signatures. But all too often, when a signature is needed on a document, a hard copy original is printed...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Digital Signatures for Human Resource Uses
White Papers It is not unusual for Human Resource (HR) specialists to find themselves buried under tons of paperwork requiring signatures. But all too often when a signature is needed on a document, a hard copy original is printed, the document is physically...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Digital Signatures for Laserfiche
White Papers CoSign for Laserfiche adds digital signatures to the Laserfiche environment simply and intuitively, enabling electronic signing and sealing of documents within the Laserfiche repository and workflow. CoSign makes it easy to digitally sign...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
DTI opens second consultation on e-signatures
News A new discussion document on electronic signatures has been released by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), after the UK government failed to meet the July 2001 deadline for implementation of the EU Electronic Signatures Directive.
[February 1, 2002, 17:06]
Lightweight Email Signatures
White Papers This paper presents Lightweight Email Signatures (LES), a simple cryptographic architecture for authenticating email. LES is an extension of DKIM, the recent IETF e ort to standardize domain-based email signatures.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Digital signatures to get legal status?
News UK e-commerce could get a much needed boost as the British government takes steps to give digital signatures the same legal standing as real ones. The Cabinet Office has asked industry body E-Centre UK, to suggest amendments to current laws stating...
[November 24, 2000, 9:05]
E-signatures for 30 million laptops
News Touchpad maker Synaptics has announced a deal that could create electronic signatures for more than a third of the laptops on the planet. The deal is one of the first of several product announcements expected prior to 1 October, when the Electronic...
[September 27, 2000, 9:28]
iPlayer petition wins 16,000 signatures
News Each 10 Downing Street e-petition requires 200 signatures to warrant a government response, with each petitioner receiving an email detailing this response. More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has...
[August 21, 2007, 8:23]
Understand how intrusion prevention systems (IPS) use attack signatures
White Papers Learn how IPS devices use signatures to identify activity in your network traffic and on hosts on your network. Chapter: Chapter 2: Signatures and Actions This sample chapter, taken from Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals, examines signature types...
[May 16, 2006, 1:00]
21 CFR Part 11: Meeting the FDA's Requirements for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures Used in the Pharmaceutical Industry
White Papers The products are designed to enable authentication, protect data integrity and confidentiality, provide audit trails, establish non-repudiation, control access to information and deliver unique electronic signatures.
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Digital signatures pose security risk, says expert
News A leading technology expert has warned that digital signatures, an increasingly prevalent Internet security technology, could hail a future devoid of privacy. Speaking at the International Forum on Surveillance by Design in London, senior...
[September 26, 2000, 11:45]
Enhancing PHP Applications With Digital Signatures Through SAPI Web Services: PHP Via Web Services
White Papers This Web-Services interface is based on OASIS Digital Signature Services (DSS) standard, which was announced in 2007 and is aimed at expanding application usage of digital signatures by setting definitions of how a digital signature application...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
