What is a digital signature?
Digital signatures are a secure and easy way to sign and authenticate documents. With digital signatures, user can sign documents in smart, quicker and paperless way without any fear of tampering or forging.
How to validate digital signature ?
Once a document is signed by the signer or company, the receiving party needs to verify two things:
a. Validity of signer’s signature
b. Is document authenticated? Has signed document forged or tempered by anyone after signing?
The validity of the signer’s signature & document integrity can be verified easily using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader, user can click on any signature and verify its validity. The validity of the signer’s signature is determined by checking the authenticity of the KAiZEN digital certificate.
If it shows a green verified tick in adobe acrobat, then it confirms two things:
a. These documents are signed by verified signer using KAiZEN.
b. The document has its integrity, and the signed content has not been altered or forged or tampered after signing.
Few simple steps to validate digital signatures signed via KAiZEN:
- Step 1:
Once the document is completely signed via KAiZEN, download the final signed pdf document on your laptop or machine.
Step 2:Right-click the document and open the file in “Adobe Acrobat Reader”. Once the document successfully opens in adobe, check the document header for the document verification status as highlighted below:
Let’s see how the Adobe Acrobat Reader help to validate:
Step 3:If its shows “Signed and all signatures are valid” with green tick, that means all the “signatures” which are signed via KAiZEN in whole document are valid and verified. Also, the document has not been modified or forged after the signers has signed the document.
In order to verify each signature. Click on “Signature Panel” in the header or click on individual sign of the signer and it will display a popup with the details of the Verifier.
