Easy to Implement: e-Sign Secure by Authentify offers the flexibility to support any type of document, while working seamlessly alongside existing document management capabilities. Because only a hash and the document signature are needed for verification, Authentify never needs to see or hold the actual document. This means the process doesn’t become “one more place” a document needs to be stored.
Easy to Use: While Authentify employs cryptography for document hashes and internal signatures to deliver a verifiable e-sign process, there is no need for end users to install or know about “heavy” cryptographic capability. In fact, Authentify’s phone-based e-sign solution uses technology already familiar to end users, making the process easy to understand and use. The Authentify e-signature is also “human understandable,” which allows a person to listen to the voice recording and know the content of the e-signature.
Meeting e-Sign Requirements
The e-Sign Act defines an electronic signature as "an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.
The table below breaks out the e-Sign Act's definition of an electronic signature into its individual components to better illustrate how Authentify's e-Sign Secure meets the e-Sign requirements in a practical way that makes the identity and intentions of the signer very clear.
| • | An electronic sound, symbol, or process The user’s own voice is a unique, human understandable electronic signature captured in a process that is biometrically capable. |
| • | Attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record The process cryptographically binds the document signature code, the full document hash, and the transaction voice recordings for an inseparably bound transaction. |
| • | Executed or adopted by a person The user controls the process - he or she can hang up to stop the signature. Also, the user must proactively complete the electronic signature (accidental signings cannot occur). |
| • | With the intent to sign the record The user speaks a recording of “I consent...” (or similar words that indicate user intent). |
