Is electronic signature legally recognised by law?
Digital Signature and Electronic signature (E-Sign) may be used
interchangeably, to refer a signing tool for signer to sign on a
softcopy. Signing is an action to infer that the signer has indeed,
read, understand and agreed/approved to the content of a document.
Traditionally, signing is done on a physical document or an object
when the signer performs stokes on it, this includes fingerprint
signing.
With the advancement of technology, signing today, can be
performed digitally by affixing, name, mark and even drawing to the
softcopy which we refer to Electronic Signature or Digital
Signature. Although the purpose of both terms meant the same,
however, they refer to very different mechanism in terms of
framework, security and admissibility.
