When you are looking for an electronic method which is used to authenticate electronic transactions, you will want to use a digital signature solution. Unlike an electronic signature that can be altered and changed, a digital one is encrypted once the user attached their signature to the electronic data. People, who receive a copy of the electronic data, need to have a digital certificate with a matching public key in order to authenticate and open the data.
Two Digital Certificates are created for Every Digital Signature
Anytime you create a new digital signature you create two digital certificates. One digital certificate contains the user’s electronic signature, as well as their private key. This certificate should only be distributed to the user and not shared. The other digital certificate will contain the user’s public key, which is needed to decrypt electronic data encrypted with their signature. The certificate with the public key is intended to be shared with anyone, who needs to open digitally signed data sent to them by the user.