Benefits of Digital Postmarks
The DPM is fundamentally a non-repudiation service supporting designed to protect the sanctity of mail in its digital form:
- Digital signature verification
- Timestamping of successfully verified signatures
- Standalone timestamping
- Encryption
- Validation of certificate trust chains
- Storage and archival of all non-repudiation evidence data required to support subsequent challenges
- Legal significance. In addition to federal and state legislative frameworks, the DPM holds legal weight with respect to the following legislation:
- The following have been established to encourage people to form and sign contracts and agreements electronically.
- Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), 1998
- Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (UETA), 1999
- Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN), 2000
Working with current infrastructure, it is easy to implement - providing functionality even with no client-side software, and provides automated functionality with client software.
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