Prosigner Features

Businesses are being migrated on-line at an ever increasing speed. In keeping with this pace, it becomes difficult to adopt complex new technologies. ProSigner makes this shift from paper to on-line business seamless and transparent to the user. It provides several functions to make signing and encryption operations simple and easy to use.

Sign documents directly from software applications

ProSigner integrates right into MS Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat and allows you to sign documents right from within these applications.

• In case of Word and Excel, ProSigner provides intuitive icons and menu options, enabling you to sign/encrypt and perform other security operations with ease.
• In case of Word/Excel, PDF documents, users can get a visual representation of their signature.
• In case of Adobe, ProSigner works over Adobe's native digital signatures and adds value and provides several features additions over these.

Wizards for Signing / Encryption

ProSigner provides two wizard based utilities for performing security operations on files:

These two utilities are
• E-Sign application
• E-Guard application

Ability to add handwritten signatures

Allows you to create your handwritten signature using mouse or any Wintab compliant signature pad.

Ability to sign and email the document in a single operation

ProSigner opens up the default email client with the signed document attached to it. Users can simply provide the email address and send the document to the recipient.

Visual validation status of the signature

ProSigner maintains the current signature status in the signature block. (ProSigner provides this facility only for MS office documents).

• A cross (X) denotes that the document has been modified after signing or the certificate used while signing has expired (after verification).
• A tick in the signature block denotes data integrity (after verification of the file).
• A question mark (?) appears in the signature block immediately after signing or else if the certificate used for signing is either invalid after verification. (i.e. revoked) or not trusted.

Section Signing for Word documents

Users can create sections is a Word document and ProSigner allows users to add their comment and signature in each section without invalidating prior signatures.

Signature configuration in Excel

You can define how the signature block can be displayed in Excel. You can choose

• Have the signature floating over the cells
• Fit the signature to the cell size
• Adjust the cell to the signature size
• Merge cells below the signature

Signature placement in Word

ProSigner allows you to specify the location of the signature in a Word document. You can either place the signature at

• At the cursor – Signature appears wherever the cursor is placed on the document
• At the end of the document – Signature block is placed at the end of the document irrespective of the cursor position
• Search phase - It allows you to define a phrase and you can place the signature before/after, below/above the phrase. You can also replace the phrase completely

Signing / Encryption User Profiles

• Users can create individual profiles for signing or encryption operations. Whenever they need to perform routine operations, they can access these profiles, which store all their settings and preferences.
• This helps them convert repetitive tasks into "one-click" processes.

Right click security operations

ProSigner integrates seamlessly into the Windows environment. This allows users to "right-click" and performs signing and encryption operations right from their desktop or windows explorer.

Support for Multiple signatures

• Many business documents need to be signed by more than one party. To make it legally viable, all parties need to sign the exact contents.
• With ProSigner, multiple people can sign and approve the same document.
• An audit trail is also maintained which helps track approvals to the document.
• All signatures on the document can be independently verified. Any change to the content of the document will invalidate the previous signature.

Batch Signing

• ProSigner's Batch signing capability makes bulk signing quick and effortless and minimizes the time involved in routine signing tasks.
• This feature is particularly useful where several business documents require an authorized signature.
• ProSigner speeds up this process and allows for several such files to be selected and digitally signed in one go.

Restrict access to confidential documents

• To protect confidential documents, ProSigner uses encryption methods that allow only authorized people to decrypt and view the content.
• Access to contents of high-value business documents such as financial reports or Non Disclosure Agreements need to be restricted to authorized personnel only. With ProSigner documents can be encrypted for specific people, allowing only these people to view them.

Time bound signatures

Allows for timestamping of documents as they are signed—a key feature for contract enforcement and auditing.

PKI Independence

• Works with industry-accepted public key infrastructures and seamlessly supports any X.509 digital certificate, including those issued by VeriSign, Digital Signature Trust, Entrust, RSA Security, and others.
• Security framework independence
• Supports Microsoft Crypto API

Verification utility

E-Lock Reader - Digital Signature Verification Tool

• Free Verification tool
• Verifies files signed using E-Lock ProSigner
• Can be freely distributed to users for verification