Adobe pushes new open standard
for cloud-based digital signatures
Adobe says it processes more than six billion digital and electronic signature transactions each year through Adobe Sign and Adobe Document Cloud. So it's no surprise that the creative software giant is backing a consortium of tech providers in a push to bring about industry-wide open standards for the way documents are signed on the internet.
Like other standards-driven initiatives, the Cloud Signature Consortium
will aim to build a global network of industry contributors who will
work together to create new standard specifications for cloud-based
digital signatures. These specifications could then be used to build
secure digital signature functionality across a range of cloud
applications and mobile devices.
According to Adobe,
standards-compliant digital signatures (not to be confused with
e-signatures) require a more advanced verification process that
sometimes can make using them cumbersome and time consuming.
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