What is the difference between an electronic signature and a traditional signature?

Electronic signature is a form of electronic signature, it retains the physical seal of the visual effect (i.e., the appearance of the seal), while containing digital certificates used to protect the use of electronic signature after the electronic contract with the signing of the identity of the recognizable, the contents of the characteristics of tampering.

On the surface, the traditional physical seal in the form of an entity, the use of paper documents, as opposed to the form of electronic signature can be directly affixed to the electronic documents, eliminating the need to print the document, send and other cumbersome steps.

But we may wish to compare the electronic signature and the traditional physical seal of the different levels, can be seen in the seal use efficiency, cost and risk control, etc., there are differences between the two:

Electronic signature to the network environment as a medium to the digital signature, encryption of information as the core to achieve the seal management and control of the traceable, electronic, mobile, enhance the company seal control capabilities.

What are the problems of using traditional physical seals?

1, seal types, unified monitoring is difficult: The company seal is generally divided into official seal, financial seal, contract seal, legal representative seal, invoice seal. Due to the expansion of molecular companies, subordinate departments, the number of seals continues to increase, unified supervision is more and more difficult

2, with a high frequency of sealing, the ledger record is not accurate: paper contract seal generally need to fill out the ledger. However, the filling is easy to write wrongly, omission, alteration, ledger on the risk prevention and supervision of the use of the seal of the role is not great.

3. Difficulty in coordinating with other places, high cost of sending back and forth: Branches need to send paper documents to the headquarters to be stamped and then sent back. The branch business autonomy is reduced and the cost of using the seal increases

4, difficult to identify the authenticity of the seal identification procedures: physical seal seal appearance is very easy to imitate, coupled with the authenticity of the identification process is cumbersome, lagging, to the seal forgery and other unlawful acts to leave the opportunity to take advantage of

With the lack of physical seals compared to the use of electronic signatures can improve

1, stamp online, collaborative security and efficiency: electronic seal process through the online mode, cancel the region, time on the seal of the restrictions on cross-regional business enterprises to improve collaboration and communication efficiency is very important.

2, the centralization of the management of the seal, the headquarters of the management of the seal centralized power: can realize the seal use authority unified control, the physical seal centralized headquarters. Whether it is internal departmental seal or off-site branch seal, can avoid seal theft and other violations of seal behavior.

3, the process can be traced, electronic data retention: electronic signature use of each record to do data retention, with the time of the print, the identity of the print, the type of seal, the content of the contract with the print information can be audited in real time, for the company's managers to supervise the audit, to prevent the risk of providing an effective credentials.

4, filed electronically, access to controlled management: For the data storage contract documents, electronic signature platform with the authority of the notary public to provide notarization services, when the contract dispute can be a key to provide authoritative notary public certificates to provide the user with the protection of rights.