61.   Several ASEAN countries, including Thailand and Singapore, have some form of digital signature legislation on the books.

62.   The Act describes the necessary processes for creating and verifying digital signatures, as well as detailing the responsibilities of the parties involved.

63.   The CAs appointed to monitor and supervise the use of digital signatures must be licensed under the law.

64.   The Digital Signature Act defines digital signature as a transformation of a message using an asymmetric crypto system.

65.   The resulting digital signature can only be decrypted if the recipient has the correct public key to verify the identity of the sender.

66.   The United States, Germany and Ireland recently passed digital signature laws.

67.   To that end, each voter had to apply for a login and digital signature from a commanding officer or embassy.

68.   This type of encryption is not very secure which is why digital signatures rely on more complex encryption methods.

69.   Arif said the telemedicine act would facilitate the development of telemedicine applications while the digital signature act aids the implementation of an electronic commerce system in the MSC.

70.   The system, which could revolutionise banking transactions, is designed to provide an electronic model to existing paper cheques, using a special encrypted digital signature.