Get to Know LinkSquares Sign

What is LinkSquares Sign?

LinkSquares Sign is the new digital signature application by LinkSquares. Similar to Adobe Sign, DocuSign, HelloSign and PandaDoc, LinkSquares Sign allows users to request and apply digital signatures to any Microsoft Word (.docx), or Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) or Adobe PDF (.pdf) file.

Are LinkSquares Sign digital signatures legally binding?

LinkSquares Sign is designed to comply with electronic statutes and standards in all major legal jurisdictions and has the following functionality:

• LinkSquares Sign collects from each signatory their consent to accept electronic signatures as binding prior to their signing
• The LinkSquares Sign digital signature can be provably associated with the document it appears on and meets standards requiring that the document has been provably unaltered since the signature was applied
• The LinkSquares Sign digital signature can be provably associated with a unique individual signatory
• LinkSquares Sign uses a valid electronic security certificate and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to create an encrypted, verifiable signature record
• LinkSquares Sign uses a secure signature creation device (SSCD) to generate the encrypted, verifiable signature record

How secure is LinkSquares Sign?

LinkSquare Sign generates digital signatures, which are designed to be far more secure than conventional ink-on-paper “wet” signatures or even simple electronic signatures. Each person who signs a document with LinkSquares Sign is associated with a unique email address and IP address, both of which are recorded in an exportable audit log. This data is used to confirm the identity of each person who uses LinkSquares Sign to digitally sign a document.

Once a document is signed, LinkSquares Sign uses industry-standard technology to add encrypted metadata to the PDF, proving it has not been altered after the digital signature was applied.

LinkSquares Sign digital signatures and metadata are encrypted using the same protocols employed by Adobe Sign, and can be verified using the built-in signature history tools (specifically, the Signature Panel) in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader or the DocuSign Validator.

The LinkSquares Sign security certificate is provided by Entrust, which is employed by DocuSign, is included on the Adobe Approved Trust List of digital certificate authorities, and is a member of the Cloud Signature Consortium. The LinkSquares Sign encryption key is housed in an Amazon Web Services Key Management Service instance, which serves as the hardware security module SSCD for digital signature generation.

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