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The Legal Aspects of Electronic
Signature in UAE
Electronic signatures provide businesses and individuals involved in online transactions
with an effective mechanism for ascertaining their identity. They also ensure authentici-
ty and integrity of the electronic message, much like hand-written signatures, that is, to
confirm that the message has not been altered since it was signed. All electronic signa-
tures are represented digitally. They may be created by a number of technologies and
be of different types such as a digitized fingerprint, a pin number, a retinal scan, or a
digitized image of a handwritten signature attached to an electronic message, or even a
name typed at the end of an e-mail. Perhaps the most sophisticated type of e-signature
is the “digital signature”, which is created through the use of public key cryptography.
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