> Wait, so it's not a digital cryptographic signature...it's just like an image of your handwritten signature stamped on a document? Does that have some kind of

> Wait, so it's not a digital cryptographic signature...it's just like an image of your handwritten signature stamped on a document? Does that have some kind of magic legal force? People seem to believe they do, at the very least. I've never signed documents with anything but my signature, some electronically with a print-sign-scan-email. My rental agreement with my current landlord was a bit different: it was electronic (the document was on a website), and you clicked various "signature" lines, which inserted your name, and what looked like some sort of cryptography signature. (There were some hexadecimal bytes, and a pretty little ribbon picture.) I never supplied my key to the site, so I'm inclined to say it's the website's key signing my clicking of the button, which I think probably worthless since it doesn't answer the question of who is signing the document, which is the important thing, but hey, Encryption! Signature! Bits!