K.Sign - Comparative table
With K.Sign®, you have a personal digital signature that you can use to sign all types of documents (PDF, XML, JPEG, etc.) generated by the major applications in use – Microsoft Office 2010, Open Office, Adobe – or specific digital signature software (Lex-persona).
With K.Sign®, all document recipients can view your signature in their standard applications, where it is natively recognized (Adobe Reader, Microsoft Office 2010, etc.).
With K.Sign® you also have access to timestamping and validation services for your signature, ensuring that your signed documents are valid for future reference and use.
K.Sign® comes in two versions that meet French and European laws and regulations for pre-defined uses as displayed in the following table:
| Signature value | K.Sign® for office environment | K.Sign® for regulated environment | Use |
| Advanced Signature* and proof agreement* |
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Signature and authentication | |
| Qualified Signature at European level** | |
No-Repudiation signature with presumption of reliability |
In EEC the Directive stipulates that an electronic signature cannot be legally discriminated against solely on the grounds that it is in electronic form. If a certificate and the service provider as well as the signature product used meet a set of specific requirements, there will be an automatic assumption that any resulting electronic signatures are as legally valid as a hand-written signature. Moreover, they can be used as evidence in legal proceedings.
*Advanced Signature
means an electronic signature which meets the following requirements:
[a] it is uniquely linked to the signatory;
[b] it is capable of identifying the signatory;
[c] it is created using means that the signatory can maintain under his sole control; and
[d] it is linked to the data to which it relates that any subsequent change of the data is detectable" (art. 2.2 dir.).
An advanced electronic signature has more significant value than an electronic signature: it guarantees the integrity of the text, as well as the authentication.
**Qualified Signature
If the digital signature is created with a Qualified certificate based on Secured-Signature-Creation-Device (SSCD) , the signature process is presumed to be reliable without requiring any further demonstration. (Integrity and no repudiation features).
