0 a way of putting a person's name on an electronic document that proves who that person is --
1 a piece of electronic information that shows who has created or sent an electronic document or message: --
The software generates and verifies digital signatures.
Specifically, the microchip contains a digital certificate for online authentication and (optionally) a certificate for digital signatures.
Thus, the electronically transmitted votes from the precincts no longer bear digital signatures.
Passwords or digital signatures can be used for authentication.
Peers can protect their identities from each other's by using reply onions, digital signatures, or similar technologies.
It captures relations among data, metadata, analysis files and other components, and includes support for audit trails, versioning and digital signatures.
The publication disallows creation of digital signatures with a hash security lower than 112-bits after 2013.
It is a wide area and issues such as intellectual property rights, information security, privacy, encryption, digital signatures, payment taxation and so on are emerging as important.
We will achieve that by developing a corporate information technology strategy for government, establishing frameworks across government on issues such as digital signatures, smart cards and websites.