
The E-signature XML articles bill has finally become law in the Netherlands, placing the digital signature on an equal legal footing with its old-fashioned, handwritten equivalent. But how useful is it in practice? Not to be confused with scanned-in copy of an ink-on-paper signature, an E-signature XML articles and software uses cryptography and information technology (IT) to uniquely identify the sender of an electronic message or document, guaranteeing that senders of such messages really are who they claim to be.
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