1. Description
Signiflow is an electronic signature solution made up of two components:
Hardware (server): A secure and certified network-attached appliance that provides electronic signature services to the SigniFlow client software. It stores encrypted private keys, certificates and other signing credentials belonging to specific users.
Software (client): A computer program that uses the electronic signature services provided by the SigniFlow server to enable users to electronically sign documents. It can only be used by authorised signers together with the private keys that are securely stored in the server.
In order to send signing requests from the SigniFlow Client to the SigniFlow server, authorised users create a default signature in the form of their name or a graphical image.
The first time that an Accfin user sends out an e mail to one of their clients with a request to dedicatedly sign a letter approving a tax return or a provisional tax return, or a company secretarial document they will have the opportunity of creating a signature which could be a font signature or a graphical image of their signature which will be registered against an email address with their own unique password. Once this signature record has been setup by the user it will be available from thereon each time they are requested to sign or approve a document.
After users apply their signature to a document using the SigniFlow client, their signing request is sent to the SigniFlow Server. This request includes a document hash, which is a cryptographic function that produces a unique string of characters from the document data. This string of characters protects the document from being altered once it has been signed because the string will change if the document data is modified, and if changed the change can be detected.