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What benefits do products such as DocuSign or cheapesignature have over digital signatures provided by open source libraries such as NaCl [1]? [1] https://nacl
by steeps 5y ago
What benefits do products such as DocuSign or cheapesignature have over digital signatures provided by open source libraries such as NaCl [1]?
[1] https://nacl.cr.yp.to/ https://nacl.cr.yp.to/
- paxys 5y ago> NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools The services being discussed are the higher-level tools.
- dahfizz 5y agoI'm pretty sure NaCl does cryptographic signatures. Docusign is a way for a human to "sign" a document with their computer - the legal equivalent to writing your name on a physical contract.
- detaro 5y agoAbout that: highly depends. E.g. here in Germany, a properly done cryptographic signature is equivalent to an ink signature on a paper contract. Docusign is not. (Some delivery startup recently found out the hard way, when they discovered that parts of their contracts with workers were invalid due to that, and they thus had given them permanent contracts where they had intended them to be temporary) Sadly the digital signatures are uncommon, because well, its a digitalisation effort in Germany, of course nobody did anything competent about actually implementing it. (e.g. a while after creating those laws, ID cards were changed to be smart cards too. And instead of just giving everyone a usable cert on one of those that's a paid extra)
- probst 5y agoAn incredible level of polish and ease of use.
- blocked_again 5y agoWe don't live in a world where everyone is a software engineer.