[AccessD] Electronic Signature

Hi Julie

Well, one purpose - or even the main purpose - of digital signatures is to replace manual signing of paperwork with digitally signed electronic documents. This way you certify that the signed electronic document has been signed by the sender and - very important - has not been changed on its way to the receiver. This means that a signed e-mail cannot be tampered with (date, sender, receiver, subject, attachments, etc.) without breaking the validation of the signature.

Indeed, in a closed forum as yours, this would be the way to go. How you build and read the e-mails - vb.net or vb(a) with or without an ocx or other component, or manually with a proper client - is of no importance.

/gustav

>>> prosoft6 at hotmail.com 12-06-2006 17:41:17 >>>
Hi Gustav,

I'm going to try the vb.net digital signatures.  We provide tech support to 
businesses who don't have an IT department as well as software development.

Have thought about going web  based for the "work tickets" when a client is 
havng trouble with a support issue, and needs us to come over to their 
business and assist them.  I know that there are plenty of those out there 
for implementation.

However, we really wanted to use our own software to tie into their system 
so that everyone has the same copy of the signed "work ticket" to match up 
to our invoicing as well as our invoicing, without the exchange of hard 
copy.

Not sure that certificates are what we want to use.   I need the "work 
ticket" signed by the person who is having the work done, to verify that my 
employees had indeed performed the work in a satisfactory manner, and also 
to veryify the date that the work started and the work was completed for 
billing purposes.  This cuts down on the questions when a client is invoiced 
for the work.

The only thing that I can think to do is to capture the work ticket that was 
e-mailed to me, put it on the pda, when the work is complete, have the 
employee and the user sign the work ticket on the pda, send an electronic 
copy to their server, and one to my server.

It still seems like a lot of paperwork.  I'm thinking about just connectiing 
to the backend database and storing the signautures there.   Will let you 
know what I come up with.

I hate paperwork!