Comments on: Digital Signature & Encryption

By: EchoSign Review : Productivity501

EchoSign Review : Productivity501 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:02:00 +0000

[...] of what EchoSign offers can be accomplished with digital signatures. However, the barrier to entry is much lower with EchoSign and it is easier to get other people [...]

By: Digital Signatures : Productivity501

Digital Signatures : Productivity501 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:51:50 +0000

[...] the past few days, the most popular post on this site has been our explanation of how Digital Signatures & Encryption works. Understanding this is key for our society to get past the point of using dead dinosaurs [...]

By: Text and Image Documents : Productivity501

Text and Image Documents : Productivity501 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:11:35 +0000

[...] want to have an image-based document with their signature. (There are some ways to do things with digital PKI signatures that will stand up in court, but that gets quite a bit more [...]

By: Dealing with Signatures and Email : Productivity501

Dealing with Signatures and Email : Productivity501 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:31:09 +0000

[...] Today an insurance company needed my signature, and they sent me a TIFF of the file. I used my scanned signature, added it to the TIFF and sent it back. They said they couldn’t accept that because it came over email. Since the document they sent me had their signature, I asked if I should reject it because it came to me over email. The agents said I was “too funny”. I sent them the same TIFF via fax and they seemed happy with that. This is why we need to get everyone using true digital signatures and encryption on email. [...]

By: How to Create a Scanned Digital Signature : Productivity501

How to Create a Scanned Digital Signature : Productivity501 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:09:16 +0000

[...] sign documents in Acrobat. We also have a number of other articles about going paperless and one on Digital Signatures and Encryption that might be [...]

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:18:08 +0000

@Jim – That is too bad. I added a link to Comodo which still offers free certificates.

By: How to keep Hitler from reading your email

How to keep Hitler from reading your email — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:31:01 +0000

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By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:42:31 +0000

The Hitler usage is hilarious but it will be perfect with a pair of small mustache.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:14:10 +0000

Hey, great article, thanks for explaining public key encryption. I just wanted to note that in checking out the company you mentioned, Thawte, it looks like they’re ending their email encryption service on November 16th and migrating all of the users over to VeriSign, whose email encryption service is $20 a year.