On 12/04/2023 15.54, Alex Kink via talk wrote:
By "digital signatures" you still mean cryptographic digital signatures, right, not scribbles on a PDF?
Both. Those squiggles you left on someone's Square app? Valid signature.
Who and in what context would accept them? I haven't tried, but I doubt anyone would accept my cryptographic digital signature in Ontario, since to begin with, they wouldn't even know what that is.
Is your PDF signed with a certificate where Acrobat Reader (say) has a copy of the master certificate? If so, and you're presenting the document electronically, it's as valid as if it were wet signed. This is a big "in theory", though. Legally, it's valid. If the receiving party decides they don't understand it/accept it, wet signed on paper it has to be. Ask me about the project I worked on where an Ontario government agency promised they would accept cryptographically-signed PDFs, then the project officer we were assigned did a "Computer Says No «cough»". We had to chase round southern Ontario trying to track down 300 contractors with box files of paperwork ... Stewart