Digital Signatures - From Paper Archiving to e-Archiving

CoSign® for e-Archiving signs documents with legally enforceable digital signatures, enabling companies to free themselves from archiving the original paperwork. Without a doubt, physical archiving is a solution that should be thrown on the dust pile of history. Yet companies are still managing or outsourcing expensive physical archiving in order to comply with the requirement to present original documents during a legal dispute.

EU Member States have recently passed legislation that allows replacing the expensive paper archive with an e-Archiving solution, provided the original documents are digitally signed during the scanning and e-Archiving process.

The software component interfaces with the organization’s existing scanning processes, and uses the hardware component to sign and seal the archived files.

The CoSign hardware is an appliance for digital signatures, physically protected by a hardened enclosure. The appliance connects to the organization’s network and acts as a server for digital signatures. Signing the files to be archived is performed following user authentication at a performance rate that exceeds 100 signatures per second.