Re: Any ideas if a form needs a signature?
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:44:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Any ideas if a form needs a signature? | ||
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Hello,
Chris wrote:
>
> I am digitalizing a companies Application in an online system. The problem is that companies
> they deal with require the app to be signed. Obviously an online application cannot be signed
> conventionally. Does anyone know of a way or a work-around to accomplish this?
In Europe, many banks only let you do Internet banking if you use a
digital certificate that you enable after you receive a code by postal
(snail) mail. The certificate is created online, but you need to enter a
password defined by yourself everytime you want to use it. This is to
reduce the chance that somebody does anything if they steal the
certificate files from your disk.
It is annoying because the certificate maybe lost in a hard disk crash,
very frequent with Windows users that keep trying all the crap that they
get from the Internet and they don't have a clue that they should take
backup copies of the certifcate files. Some banks only let you create 3
copies of your certificate.
I don't know if this solves your problem, but at least could be a means
of demonstrating that who is accessing your site pages is somebody well
known to your institution and the possibilities of fraud are low.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos