Talk:Electronic seal

Electronic Seal vs (or and) Digital Seal
The article's description section talks more about digital seals than electronic seals.

When you look at electronic signature vs digital signature, there's a clear distinction between them. As per my industry knowledge:

Electronic

Electronic signature - Is simply an electronic format (jpeg, png, base64) representation of your hand-drawn or typed signature, associated with an intent of approval.


 * Electronic seal - Is a sub-type of electronic signature, where the intent is to attest the origin and authenticity of the document. Example can be an image representation of a company seal or rubber stamp.

Digital

Digital signature - Is a cryptographically computed fingerprint for a digital file like a PDF for example with a digital certificate attesting to the identity of the signing party's public key.


 * Digital seal - Is a sub-type of digital signature, where the intent is to attest the integrity and authenticity of the document by applying a tamper-evident cryptographic signature on the e-signed or e-sealed document. Note: My understanding is that Digital seal can be applied and perceived in the context of 'sealing' on a document even if it doesn't have an e-signature or e-seal on it as it provides the authenticity, non-repudiation, and integrity with the tamper-evident nature of it.

In this article, I am observing that it is more about digital seal rather than electronic seal. I also acknowledge that there is an overlap with electronic and digital seal's contexts and intent. If my observation makes sense, I'd like to propose a new article for digital seal and modifications to this one to clearly call out that electronic seal can be backed with a digital certificate.

Addendum


 * The source [1] seems reliable and the terminology used there is 'Digital Seals' as well.
 * In the eIDAS regulation, Electronic Seals are mentioned, butin the context where it'd be supported by a digital certificate, making it Advanced Electronic Seal and Qualified Electronic Seal. An Electronic Seal by itself is a Simple Electronic Seal.

--Karthikeyan KC 09:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)