How to create an electronic version of a handwritten signature

[aprilpeaches at work]

How can I protect an electronic version of a handwritten signature?

 

[Bob I]

from what?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You can't. Anything that you can do can be undone by someone else if they
want to.

 

[aprilpeaches at work]

Someone wants to scan their signature, create a jpeg or bitmap and paste it
into a form for their signature. I have told them that anyone can then cut &
paste their signature into any other document they want.
I need some viable alternative options. Receipient of the forms are not very
technical savy to unencrypt, but via email, someone who is could capture his
signature & use it.

 

[DL]

You cannot do anything with a signature.
You can obtain a digital signature for an email, but any document that is
attached could be still used elsewhere.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

YOu can try converting the signed document to .pdf format but even that can
be undone. Best way to protect the document is to encrypt it.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, aprilpeaches at work asked:

| How can I protect an electronic version of a handwritten signature?

 

[James Silverton]

Hello, Milly!
You wrote on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:03:57 -0700:

MSM> --
MSM> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
YOu can try converting the signed document to .pdf format but
even that can
be undone. Best way to protect the document is to encrypt it.

--

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

MSM> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion
MSM> intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account
MSM> will be deleted without reading.

MSM> After furious head scratching, aprilpeaches at work asked:

??|> How can I protect an electronic version of a handwritten
??|> signature?

If I could print a pdf I could scan any part of the output into
a graphics program. As you say, some form of encryptation might
work.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not

 

[Bob I]

A picture/image of the signature will be an image of the signature.
Anyone can then use it, period. In a real sense, that signature would
have no legal value as it's source is not verifiable. It would not be an
"official signature", merely a "courtesy signature". As long as they
understand that there isn't any protection that can prevent its reuse,
and it has no legal standing, let them do as they wish. Think on this,
if someone has a document(paper or image)with your signature on it, they
can scan it and crop it to the signature, and you can't do a thing about
it. THAT is why it has no value.