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The Legal Aspects of Electronic

Signature in UAE

Electronic signatures provide businesses and individuals involved in online transactions

with an effective mechanism for ascertaining their identity. They also ensure authentici-

ty and integrity of the electronic message, much like hand-written signatures, that is, to

confirm that the message has not been altered since it was signed. All electronic signa-

tures are represented digitally. They may be created by a number of technologies and

be of different types such as a digitized fingerprint, a pin number, a retinal scan, or a

digitized image of a handwritten signature attached to an electronic message, or even a

name typed at the end of an e-mail. Perhaps the most sophisticated type of e-signature

is the “digital signature”, which is created through the use of public key cryptography.

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July 2018

DoIT Newsletter

May 28, 2024