You Do Know That DocuSign Is Not Really Digital Signing …

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And so the world is changing. The whole concept of me signing with my wet signature is going. But we are still struggling to release ourselves from the almost completely untrustworthy scribble. So, while digital signatures have little in the way of legal standing, we have ended up with two almost completely untrusted worthy ways of signing something.

The first crazy way is to copy and paste your signature into a document (ha-ha!), and then produce a PDF of it, and send it off:

Here’s a bit of fun with signatures:

And some people even put their signatures into Web pages [here]:

Honestly, who puts their signature on-line? Oh wait, someone tweeted this (doh!):

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.