US 7,568,101 B1Grant
Digital signatures with an embedded view
Issue Date:2009-07-28
•21 Claims
•10 Drawing Sheets
Abstract
Digital signatures having an embedded view of signed data that lock the signed data but permit it to be repurposed are described. One of these digital signatures can be repurposed for signature by others, such as co-signers or counter-signers. Another of these digital signatures includes embedded information sufficient to recreate the embedded view using the signed data. A method for building a digital signature is also described that permits signing different parts of an electronic document.
Metadata
Assignee
- Microsoft Corporation
Inventors
- Alessandro Catorcini
- Arungundram Narendran
- Danny van Velzen
- Mihaela C. Cris
Application Information
Application Number:US 10/846,428
Filing Date:2004-05-13
Priority Date:2004-05-13
Art Unit:2436
Classifications
IPC:
H04L9/32
Patent Drawings (10 sheets)
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] This invention relates to digital signature methods and systems.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Digital signatures are valid substitutes to traditional inked signatures in many countries. Digital signatures, like inked signatures, may be used as evidence to show that a particular body of data was signed.
[0003] Typical digital signatures allow a signer to electronically sign data and be reasonably certain that the data will not change. Thus, data having a digital signature is locked; it cannot be altered without invalidating the digital signature. Because of this, a digital signature can be used as evidence to show that the data locked by the digital signature was signed and has not been altered since it was signed.
[0004] While the data may not change since it was signed, how the data is presented can change with some types of electronic documents. Data presented in one way may be substantially different to the viewer than when presented in another. Important data can be shown with a large font that is easily seen in one presentation, for instance, but in another be shown in a small-font footnote.
[0005] This can be a significant problem for types of digital signatures that do not preserve the view of the data when signed. These types of digital signatures will not show how the data was presented when signed, making them less reliable evidence. Thus, while digital signatures typically lock the data that is signed, some types of digital signatures do not lock or preserve the view of the data when it was signed.
[0006] Some other types of digital signatures, however, preserve the view of the data when it was signed using a link to the view at a remote website. Here the data of the digital signature can be presented in other ways after the data is signed, but the view seen by the signer is preserved, at least initially, through this remote website.
[0007] These digital signatures suffer from significant drawbacks. First, the view stored in the remote website may not be valid or exist when the digital signature is later used as evidence. In many real-world situations, a digital signature may need to be used as evidence ten, twenty, or even thirty years from when it was signed. The view initially preserved at the remote website may not exist then. Second, the view, even if it exists, may not be readily available, such as when the remote website cannot be readily accessed.
[0008] Another type of digital signature partially addresses this drawback but it suffers from another problem. This type of digital signature combines the view of the data when signed and the data itself. But combining the data and the view prevents the data from being read by a machine. Because the data is not machine readable, it cannot be repurposed, which significantly limits the usefulness of this type of digital signature.
[0009] Given the foregoing, there is a need in the art for a digital signature that can permit signed data to be repurposed and that can also include the view when signed.
SUMMARY
[0010] A digital signature and related methods and systems providing an embedded view of signed and repurposable data is described. Allowing signed data to be repurposed permits the signed data to be reused, allowing, for instance, other individuals to sign different portions of the signed data or the same signed data in a different presentation.
[0011] A digital signature, as disclosed herein, can also include embedded information sufficient to recreate the embedded view using the signed data. This information provides a check on the embedded view to further secure the digital signature.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0012] FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary architecture having an exemplary electronic document and signing application.
[0013] FIG. 2 sets forth a flow diagram of an exemplary process for creating digital signatures in part by interacting with a potential signer.
[0014] FIG. 3 illustrates a screen shot showing part of a signable data section of the electronic document.
[0015] FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary certification dialog box.
[0016] FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary comment dialog box.
[0017] FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary signing overview dialog box showing exemplary information that can be embedded into a digital signature.
[0018] FIG. 7 illustrates a screen shot showing part of a signable data section that has been signed.
[0019] FIG. 8 sets forth a flow diagram of an exemplary process for building digital signatures.
[0020] FIG. 9 illustrates an exemplary electronic document, signature blocks, and digital signature.
[0021] The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and figures to reference like components and features.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Overview
[0022] Digital signatures and related methods and systems described below can provide an embedded view of data when signed that locks the signed data and permits it to be repurposed. Allowing signed data to be repurposed permits the signed data to be reused, allowing, for instance, other individuals to sign different portions of the signed data or the same signed data in a different presentation. An embedded view makes a digital signature more secure by capturing the context that lead to the decision to sign, without having to rely on a potentially unreliable or unavailable view.
[0023] This embedded view captures how data is presented when a signer makes a decision to sign. By seeing data in a particular way, a signer makes a decision to sign or not sign. Because this embedded view shows how the data was presented to the signer at signing and the context in which the data is shown, this embedded view can be important in establishing what the signer intended to sign.
[0024] These digital signatures may also include other embedded information that further secures the digital signature. Information sufficient to recreate the computer environment with which the embedded view was viewed, for instance, may be embedded to provide additional context for the embedded view. With this information (called “meta information”), a court of law can determine what computer environment is needed to recreate what a signer viewed at signing. The court can then recreate what the signer viewed by presenting the embedded view with this computer environment.
[0025] Comments, custom information, and the like also may be embedded to further secure and provide context for the digital signature.
[0026] Described below are these and other exemplary digital signatures and related methods and systems for building and using them. In some embodiments, the techniques and processes discussed herein may be implemented using one or more computer-readable media.
Exemplary Electronic Document and Signature Blocks
[0027] Referring to FIG. 1 , an exemplary architecture 100 is shown having an electronic document 102 and signing application 104 accessible by a computer 106. This architecture 100 and its components are shown to aid in discussing, but are not intended to limit the applicability of, the digital signatures and their related methods.
[0028] In this architecture 100, the electronic document 102 is hierarchically structured and written using a tag-based language. In one embodiment, this language comprises eXtensible Markup Language (XML), though other structures and languages may be used. It is shown divided into signable data sections 102a, 102b, 102c, and 102d, each of which relates to various signature blocks 108, 110, 112, and 114, these relationships shown with dashed lines. These signature blocks are as yet unsigned, but are shown related to those data sections that they can lock once signed. These signature blocks can be structured to conform to the XML Signatures standard currently prescribed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
[0029] The signing application 104 comprises a user interface 116 (though this user interface 116 can be separate from the signing application 104), which can be used to aid a potential signer in signing a digital signature.
Creating Digital Signatures
[0030] Referring to FIG. 2 , an exemplary process 200 for creating digital signatures is shown. The process 200 is illustrated as a series of blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by the signing application 104 and the user interface 116. This and other processes described herein may be implemented in any suitable hardware, software, firmware, or combination thereof. In the case of software and firmware, these processes represent sets of operations implemented as computer-executable instructions.
[0031] At block 202, an electronic document capable of being signed is presented to a potential signer. In an ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 presents the electronic document 102 and enables selection of data sections 102a, 102b, 102c, and 102d for signing. The user interface 116 can present the electronic document 102 by transforming the XML into viewable HTML (Hyper Text Machine Language) using an XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) file or other suitable technique.
[0032] Referring to FIG. 3 , a screen shot 300 showing a portion 302 of the electronic document 102 is shown. This portion 302 shows a view of part of the signable data section 102a of the electronic document 102 and a selector 304 by which a user can select to sign this data section 102a. The user can select to sign just the data section 102a, just the data section 102b, both the data sections 102b and 102c at once, or all of the data sections at once. This array of choices is enabled in this embodiment by the signature blocks 108, 110, 112, and 114. In the ongoing embodiment, the user selects to sign just the data section 102a.
[0033] At block 204 of FIG. 2 , an intention to sign the presented electronic document or its data section is received. In the ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 receives a selection of the data section 102a.
[0034] At block 206, a way in which the presented electronic document or its data section can be signed is determined. In the ongoing embodiment, the signing application 104 determines in which way the selected section can be signed by analyzing the signature block 108. The signature block 108 can set forth that this data section 102a can be signed by only one person, by multiple persons as co-signers, or by multiple persons as counter-signers. It can also set forth that this data section 102a permits a digital signature having meta information, comments, and custom data, for instance. The signing application 104 directs the user interface 116 according to the ways in which the selected section can be signed. In this embodiment, the user interface 116 follows blocks 208, 210 and 216 based on this direction from the signing application 104.
[0035] At block 208, a signer's identity is selected and received. In the ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 enables selection of and receives the identity of the signer. The signer's identity can be represented by a private key in a infrastructure (PKI) certification or another suitable technique. In one embodiment, a person selecting a signer's identity can be different from that person's own identity. Thus, a person selecting the signer's identity can be acting as an agent for the signer, such as an assistant acting as an agent for his or her boss.
[0036] Referring to FIG. 4 , a dialog box for certificate selection 400 presented by the user interface 116 is shown. Here the signer chooses a way by which his or her identity is certified.
[0037] At block 210 of FIG. 2 , comments and/or custom information are enabled and received. In the ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 enables the user to add comments. Comments or custom information can be received from sources other than the user, which will be described in greater detail below.
[0038] Referring to FIG. 5 , a comment dialog box 500 presented by the user interface 116 is shown. Here the signer adds comments, if desired. Comments can help aid in analyzing a digital signature by adding context or otherwise setting the expressed intent of the signer. In this case, the signer simply comments that he approves of the applicant by his signature. In other cases, a signer might comment that he or she has reservations about some particular aspect of a document or data section he or she is signing. The user interface 116 can also present custom information options to the user (not shown), such as selecting a time stamp from a website, determining a location of the user with a global position device, and the like. This custom information can also be embedded in the digital signature to further secure and provide context for the digital signature.
[0039] At block 212 of FIG. 2 , information sufficient to recreate the view currently seen of the data intended to be signed is determined. In the ongoing embodiment, the signing application 104 determines what computer environment is necessary to recreate the view of the data section 102a currently presented to the potential signer. This environment is described with information about the computer's software and/or hardware and is called “meta information”. Using this meta information, a view embedded in the digital signature can later be verified by recreating that view from the data with the described computer environment.
[0040] At block 214, information that can be built into or locked by the digital signature is arranged or compiled. In the ongoing embodiment, the signing application 104 compiles the information that will be built into the digital signature if the user signs the data section 102a. The signing application 104 compiles information received by the user interface 116, such as comments from the signer and the signer's identity. The signing application 104 also compiles other information, such as the meta information, in some cases custom information, and/or a static image of the view currently seen by the user.
[0041] At block 216, information that can be embedded into or locked by the digital signature is presented and the signature enabled and received. In the ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 presents information that will be embedded into and locked by the digital signature if the user signs the data section 102a. In this embodiment, the information comprises the user's PKI certification, the meta information, the comments, and the static image of the view of the data section 102a and the other information shown at the moment signed. The static image can comprise data and information other than that which is signed so long as what is and is not signed in the static view can be differentiated.
[0042] In one embodiment, the static image comprises just the data signed, here the data section 102a. In another embodiment, the static image comprises additional data, such as all the data of the electronic document 102.
[0043] Referring to FIG. 6 , information that can be embedded in the digital signature, should the user sign, is presented by the user interface 116 using a signing overview dialog box 600. The user interface 116 presents the comment at 602, the meta information at 604, and the static image at 606. The user can choose to sign the digital signature by selecting a sign button 608. The user can choose to view the certificate by selecting a view certificate button 610. Prior to selecting the sign button 608, the user can select a confirmation checkbox 612, thereby recording that the user has verified the content of the overview dialog box 600 prior to signing.
[0044] As part of this presentation, the user interface 116 enables the user to check over the presented information, verify the content, and sign the digital signature.
[0045] At block 218 of FIG. 2 , a digital signature with an embedded view of the data at signing that locks the signed data but permits the signed data to be repurposed is built. In the ongoing embodiment, the signing application 104 builds the digital signature by embedding the information into the digital signature that was presented to the signer with the signature overview dialog box 600. This digital signature comprises an embedded, static image 606 of the view of the data section 102a that the signer viewed and selected to sign. This static image 606 secures the digital signature by showing in what way and to what extent the data section 102a was presented to the signer. In one embodiment, the static image 606 does not show all of the data section 102a. In this case the static image 606 shows the view presented to the signer of the data section 102a, though this view can show less than all of the data of the data section 102a.
[0046] Also in this ongoing embodiment, the digital signature comprises meta information 604 sufficient to recreate the computer environment by which the signer viewed the data section 102a. This meta information 604 provides an additional check, or a stand-alone check if no static image is embedded, on the view of the data section 102a seen by the signer.
[0047] Again in this embodiment, the digital signature comprises the comment 602 added by the signer. This comment 602 further secures and/or provide context for the signer's choice to sign the data section 102a.
[0048] At block 220 of FIG. 2 , the signed electronic document and/or data section is presented. In the ongoing embodiment, the user interface 116 presents the electronic document 102 showing the data section 102a as signed and by whom. The data section 102a is locked by the digital signature, and the electronic document 102 and the data section 102a are repurposable. In some embodiments, all of the other data of the electronic document 102 (the data 102b, 102c, and 102d) can be changed without breaking the digital signature on the data section 102a, while the data section 102a can be repurposed but not changed. Thus, other people can view and change the electronic document 102 except for the data section 102a. They can also view, reuse, and re-present the data section 102a. They can view the signed data section 102a as seen by the signer by viewing the static image 606, which is embedded in the digital signature. They can also co-sign or counter-sign the signed data section 102a (as permitted by the signature block 108). This digital signature can also insure that the data section 102a that is signed by a co-signer or counter-signer is identical to that signed by the first signer.
[0049] For documents that have many sections and need many signatures, especially if these sections and signatures overlap, this embodiment of the digital signature enables efficient reviewing and signing. A later signer of all of the data sections of the electronic document 102, for instance, knows that if the data section 102a is signed, that he or she is signing data that is identical to that which was previously signed. In some cases this is very important. For example, a CEO of a company may need to sign all of a document, but before doing so wants to know if what he is signing has already been signed by other appropriate persons. If data section 102a is related to safety standards, the CEO may want to know that the head engineer of the company has signed this data section 102a before the CEO signs the entire electronic document 102. The CEO also may want to be sure that the data section 102a has not changed since it was signed. In this embodiment, the CEO can be sure that the data signed by the head engineer has been signed and has not changed. Because this digital signature permits signed data to be read by machines, and thus be repurposed, the CEO can view the data section 102a as seen by the engineer at signing, or repurpose the data section 102a to see it in another view. When the CEO signs the whole document (here following the signature block 114) he can be signing data that has previously been signed (the data section 102a) and data that has not (e.g., the data section 102d).
[0050] Referring to FIG. 7 , the user interface 116 presents a view 700 of the data section 102a of the electronic document 102. The data section 102a is shown with an indication that it has been signed with text and an icon, shown at 702. Data within the data section 102a is locked; thus, the comments and hiring recommendation shown at 704 and 706 cannot be changed without breaking the signature shown at 702. Each signature block can permit a single signature, co-signatures, or counter-signatures for each data section to which it pertains. In this embodiment, another signature of the data section 102a is not permitted by the signature block 108, and so a choice to add another signature is not enabled at this location. Elsewhere in the electronic document 102, a signature can be enabled of all of the electronic document 102, the data section 102b, or the data sections 102b and 102c at once, as prescribed by the signature blocks 110, 112, and 114.
[0051] An exemplary method by which the signing application 104 can build digital signatures and exemplary structures for these digital signature are set forth below.
Exemplary Method for Building Digital Signatures
[0052] Referring to FIG. 8 , an exemplary process 800 for building digital signatures is shown. This process 800 is illustrated as a series of blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by the signing application 104. This process 800 is an exemplary implementation of the block 218 of FIG. 2 , though this process 800 can be implemented separately as a stand-alone process or otherwise not implemented as part of the process 200.
[0053] In one embodiment of the process 800, the signing application 104 builds a digital signature in part by embedding information into a signature block and then locking the embedded information. In other embodiments, however, information is embedded directly into a digital signature without first embedding it into a signature block. In still others, information is embedded into a signature block and locked, but other parts of the signature block are not locked and so remain changeable.
[0054] In each of the blocks 802, 804, 806, 808, 810, and 812, the signing application 104 can embed information into a digital signature by embedding the information into a signature block. The signature block can then be locked, thereby creating a digital signature comprising the information embedded into the signature block.
[0055] At block 802, the signing application 104 embeds the view of the signed data into the digital signature. In one embodiment, the signing application 104 embeds information into one of the signature blocks 108, 110, 112, and 114 and then locks the embedded information. The data signed is the data to which the signature block pertains.
[0056] In the illustrated and described embodiment, the signature blocks 108, 110, 112, and 114 comprise XML selector (e.g., and XPath expression) indicating the data of the electronic document 102 on which a signature can be made. For example, the signature block 108 indicates the data section 102a as signable. Similarly, the signature block 114 indicates the data sections 102a, 102b, 102c, and 102d as signable together. These signature blocks can indicate what part is signable through the tree or subtree for the data section 102a of the hierarchically structured electronic document 102.
[0057] The view embedded by the signing application 104 can comprise a static image seen by the signer at signing. In the ongoing embodiment, the signing application 104 embeds the static image 606 into the signature block 108 as a portable network graphic (PNG) file.
[0058] Referring to FIG. 9 , an exemplary digital signature 902 is shown. This digital signature 902 is based on the ongoing example using the signature block 108 of FIG. 1 . The digital signature 902 comprises the signature block 108, embedded information, and a locking element. Here the signing application 104 embeds the static image 606 within the digital signature 902 as a PNG file of an embedded static image 904.
[0059] At block 804 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 embeds meta information sufficient to recreate the embedded view from the signed data. This meta information comprises specifications of the computer environment used by the signer to view the signed data, such as system date, time, and time-zone, the versions of the operating system and the signing application 104, system data (e.g., type of processor), number of monitors, type of monitors, type and/or version of image application that rendered the view, and/or the like.
[0060] Referring to FIG. 9 , an embedded meta information 906 is shown. In the ongoing embodiment the embedded meta information 906 comprises the meta information 604: “System date/time: Friday, Jan. 16, 2004 4:02”; “Windows version: 5.1.2600”; “Office version: 11.0.5870”; “InfoPath version: 11.0.5924”; and “Number of monitors: 1.”
[0061] At block 806 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 embeds into the digital signature information sufficient to indicate the identity of the signer.
[0062] Referring to FIG. 9 , an embedded signer identity 908 is shown. In the ongoing embodiment, the embedded identity 906 comprises a PKI certification issued by Microsoft™ and shown in FIG. 5 .
[0063] At block 808 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 embeds a comment into the digital signature.
[0064] Referring to FIG. 9 , embedded comment information 910 is shown. In the ongoing embodiment, the embedded comment 910 comprises the text “I approve” of the comment 602 of FIG. 6 .
[0065] At block 810 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 can embed custom information into the digital signature. This custom information can be received from the signer or another source. The signing application 104 can, for instance, receive custom information from remote locations (such as a time-stamp from a government or other reliable website), a GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) device, and the like. This custom information can be added to the digital signature 902 using custom user code (e.g., script) or other manners for extending the signature block 108 and/or the digital signature 902.
[0066] Referring to FIG. 9 , embedded custom information 912 is shown. In the ongoing embodiment, the embedded custom information 912 comprises a GPS-determined physical location of the signer's computer (the computer 106) at signing.
[0067] At block 812 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 embeds information indicating what data is signed into the digital signature. In some embodiments, this information is a transformation indicating the data signed, such as by pointing to part or all of an electronic document. This transformation can indicate a particular subtree or subtrees of a structured electronic document to which the digital signature pertains.
[0068] Referring to FIG. 9 , an embedded data indicator 914 is shown. In this embodiment, the data indicator 914 is part of the signature block 108. In embodiments not using a signature block, the signing application 104 embeds the data indicator 914 into the digital signature 902.
[0069] At block 814 of FIG. 8 , the signing application 104 locks the digital signature. The signing application 104 can lock the digital signature by computing a strong cryptographic hash over the signed data and the embedded information, or with another suitable technique. The signing application 104 can also embed the strong cryptographic hash within the digital signature.
[0070] In the ongoing embodiment of the digital signature 902, the signing application 104 computes a strong cryptographic hash over the information embedded within the signature block 108, such as the static image 904, the meta information 906, the signer identity 908, the comment information 910, the custom information 912, and/or the data indicator 914, and the signed data (indicated by the indicator 914). This strong cryptographic hash is added to the digital signature 902 and locks the embedded information of the digital signature 902 and the signed data (here the data section 102a). If any of the information or the signed data is changed, the strong cryptographic hash of the digital signature 902 will not match with a new hash computed over the changed information and/or signed data. Because of this, the digital signature 902 will be deemed invalid if these are changed. The strong cryptographic hash does not, however, prevent the embedded information from being viewed by persons. It also does not prevent the signed data from being read by a machine. Because the signed data can be read by a machine, it can also be repurposed without breaking the digital signature 902.
[0071] Referring to FIG. 9 , a signature lock 916 is shown in the digital signature 902. In this embodiment, the digital signature lock 916 comprises the strong cryptographic hash described above.
[0072] The digital signature 902 is shown as the signature block 108 with embedded information and locked with a strong cryptographic hash. In other embodiments, however, a digital signature can be built without use of a signature block. In these cases the signing application 104 collects the information, determines the data that is intended to be signed, embeds the information into a digital signature and locks the information and the data.
CONCLUSION
[0073] The above-described digital signatures are secured by an embedded view of the signed data and also permit that data to be repurposed. Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described. Rather, the specific features and acts are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention.
Claims
The invention claimed is:
1. A computer-readable medium storing a digital signature, wherein the digital signature comprises an embedded view of signed data, the embedded view locking the signed data and comprising a visual representation of the signed data as seen by a signer if signing the signed data, and wherein the embedded view permits the signed data to be repurposed to allow the signed data to be co-signed or counter-signed, wherein the digital signature further comprises embedded information sufficient to recreate the embedded view from the signed data, the embedded information including one or more specifications of a computing environment used to present the visual representation, and wherein the digital signature further comprises a signature block comprising an XML tag indicating the signed data from other data of an electronic document.
2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the digital signature further comprises embedded comments received from the signer.
3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the digital signature further comprises embedded custom information.
4. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the embedded custom information comprises a physical location of the signer.
5. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the embedded custom information comprises custom user code extending the digital signature.
6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the digital signature further comprises the signed data.
7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the signed data is part of an electronic document.
8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the digital signature further comprises a strong cryptographic hash computed over the embedded view and the signed data effective to lock the embedded view and the signed data.
9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the signed data comprises extensible markup language.
10. A computer-readable medium storing a digital signature comprising a static image of signed data when signed, wherein the digital signature is configured to lock the signed data and permit the signed data to be repurposed, the digital signature further comprising embedded information sufficient to recreate a view of the signed data that is identical to the static image, the embedded information including one or more specifications of a computing environment used to present the signed data, wherein the view provides a first visual representation associated with the signed data as seen by a signer if signing the signed data, and wherein the digital signature is further configured to permit at least one of:
viewing a second visual representation of the signed data different than the first visual representation; or
co-signing or counter-signing the signed data.
11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the sufficient information indicates an operating system version and a number of monitors.
12. One or more computer-readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method comprising:
embedding a static image of data into a signature block of a digital signature, wherein at least a portion of the data is identifiable as signed data that is repurposable allowing a second digital signature of the signed data to be built, and wherein the static image provides a visual representation of the signed data as seen by a signer if signing the signed data, wherein the signature block comprises an XML tag indicating the repurposable signed data; and
embedding information into the digital signature sufficient to recreate the static image from the signed data, the embedded information including one or more specifications of a computing environment used to present the static image.
13. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise embedding a second static image of the signed data into the second digital signature.
14. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise presenting an electronic document comprising the signed data and receiving a selection to sign the signed data.
15. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise embedding a certificate indicating an identity of the signer into the digital signature.
16. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise embedding comments into the digital signature.
17. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise embedding a time-stamp into the digital signature.
18. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise embedding custom information into the digital signature by extending the digital signature.
19. The computer-readable media of claim 12, wherein the acts further comprise locking the digital signature by computing a strong cryptographic hash over the static image and the signed data.
20. A method comprising:
receiving a digital signature having an embedded static image of data, wherein at least a portion of the data is identifiable as signed data, and wherein the embedded static image provides a visual representation of the signed data as seen by a signer if signing the signed data, wherein the digital signature further comprises embedded information sufficient to recreate the static image from the signed data, the embedded information including one or more specifications of a computing environment used to present the static image; and
repurposing the signed data without breaking the digital signature, wherein the act of repurposing comprises:
building a second digital signature of the signed data; and
presenting a static image of the signed data that is different than the embedded static image.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising recreating the static image from the signed data.
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