Overview

E-Lock Prosigner

ProSigner is a digital signature product that enables organisations, their customers and partners to sign and approve documents electronically and securely, through the application of PKI based Digital signatures.

Businesses are being migrated on-line at an ever increasing speed. In keeping with this pace, it becomes difficult to adopt complex new technologies. ProSigner makes this shift from paper to on-line business seamless and transparent to the user. It provides several functions to make signing and encryption operations simple and easy to use. E-Lock ProSigner efficiently manages all your signing needs through automated features and wizards.

Use ProSigner with MS Word / Excel You can sign and encrypt files directly from within Word and Excel through the intuitive icons ProSigner provides.

Use ProSigner through Windows Explorer / Desktop ProSigner integrates right into the Windows environment. You can right click any file in the Windows Explorer or on your Desktop to sign/encrypt.

Use ProSigner with Adobe Acrobat ProSigner works over Adobe's native digital signature format, providing several value additions to the digital signature process such as the ability to associate a handwritten signature, functioning with IE, Netscape and Entrust security frameworks, support for OCSP and CAM validation, defining the signing sequence, time stamp support etc

E-Lock Reader

Enables recipients of digitally signed information to verify a document's associated signatures and to ensure that the contents have not been altered. The E-Lock Reader works in conjunction with ProSigner. A user receiving a Prosigner signed document can use the free Verification tool to read it. This can be freely distributed to users for Verification.

Business Need

Digital signatures provide an electronic means to sign documents and web content, however the real significance lies in how these signatures are used within business processes. Prosigner is the only product, which adds value to digital signatures by providing features consistent with the business need of an organisation. Prosigner is an off-the-shelf product, which immediately integrates within your existing workflow. It takes into consideration all aspects of corporate approval systems and efficiently manages all these.

Approval Management

Today's on-line business approval processes involve more than just digital signatures to documents. In approval systems, it is essential that documents created or authored need pass through pre-defined hierarchy for approval of contents. Prosigner allows the application of policies to such documents, which enforce that the document be digitally signed only in the hierarchical sequence specified by an organisation. This ensures that authorised personnel sign, depending on levels of authority or as per pre-determined business procedure.

Restricted Access to high value documents

For confidentiality, access to contents of high-value business documents such as financial reports or Non Disclosure Agreements need to be restricted to authorised personnel only. With Prosigner documents can be encrypted for specified people, allowing only these people to view the contents.

Multiple Signatures

Many business documents especially business contracts need to be signed by more than one party. To make it legally viable, all parties need to sign the exact contents of the document. With Prosigner, multiple people can sign and approve the same document. An audit trial is also maintained which helps track approvals to the document. This audit trail creates accountability for each person in the signing process and serves as powerful non-repudiation tool. All signatures on the document can be independently verified. Any change to the content of the document will invalidate the previous signature.

Time-Bound Signatures

Many business documents are time sensitive and the time of signing is very essential to the business process such as in the case of submission of tenders and quotations. Prosigner allows for time stamping of documents at the time of signing. This can be enforced using policies and can be used for audit within the business process.

Electronic representation of handwritten signatures

The representation of handwritten signatures provides only decorative value to documents without adding any business merit. Prosigner binds handwritten signatures to digital signatures, providing ease of recognition as well as trust and security to the document.

Product Highlights

E-Lock Prosigner

Provides ease of use through a point-and-click tool bar that integrates with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat.
Enables document encryption, so only specified people can view the content of a document.
Provides centralised security including signing, encryption, verification, and certificate validation.
Manages multiple signatures and creates an audit trail of documents as they flow through the signature cycle.
Supports any X.509 digital certificate and works seamlessly with certificates issued by Digital Signature Trust, Entrust, RSA Security, VeriSign and others.
Creates a time stamp on documents as they are signed.
Binds handwritten signatures to digital signatures for ease of recognition while enhancing trust and security.
Implements biometric and multifactor authentication access controls for increased user security.

Digital Certificates

Digital Signature solutions from E-Lock are designed to benefit a wide variety of industries, notably the finance, government, and healthcare sectors. Banking, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, supply chain and manufacturing supply chain transactions are just some of the B2B and B2C applications that will benefit from this solution.

To create your digital signature you will also require a digital certificate. For more information on digital certificates please click the link.

Also available from Elock:

Formseal - Digital Signatures for Forms FormSeal is a digital signature tool that can be integrated into any existing web application, to enable digital signing and verification from within the application itself. FormSeal uses digital certificates (X.509) to digitally sign data.

FormSeal Client Component Signing occurs on the client side and the FormSeal Client component enables users to digitally sign information that is submitted to the server. In case of Windows clients, this component auto-downloads; For Unix clients, a script file gets downloaded and the user needs to run this to install the client component.

FormSeal Server Component On receiving the users' data, the FormSeal server component verifies the information before accepting it and returning a receipt to the user for the transaction. All verification occurs on the Server side and verification provides information on the validity, trust, and expiry of the certificate that was used to sign.

And

DeskSeal - Digital Signatures for Online Documents

· Sign documents directly on your Website or Server
· Select files of any format to sign and upload
· Users can directly connect to the website/server to view and sign documents online
· Uses digital certificates (X.509) to sign data

List Documents to be Signed on the Website/Server Any organisation can make available from its website or server, documents that need to be signed. Users can then connect to the server and view the document they want to sign. When the user selects the document to sign, an html page opens up with 2 frames, the top frame displays the document to be signed and the bottom frame provides a button to sign/verify the ocument.

Whatever you need to digitally sign, E-lock supplies a full compliment of software to perform the task.

Recommended Reading

RSA Security's Official Guide to Digital Signatures
Stephen Paine

This is THE definitive book on digital signatures, written by RSA insiders, and backed by RSA Security, Inc. This expert resource explains the main goals of security--confidentiality, authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation--and gives insight into actual real-world digital signature implementations.