Future of Online Signatures: The One-Sign Feature

Have you ever messed up trying to sign a document digitally? If you did, then you know how difficult it is to use your index finger as a god-given stylus; To draw between those tiny exact spaces and redo it, again and again, in case the screen does not capture your finger drawn signature properly. Shouldn’t there be a better convenient, hassle-free way to do this? Something that ensures authenticity, accountability, security, and at the same time doesn’t feel like ‘draw-wrestling’? Here we present our solution in the form of a software system as a hypothesis going by the name ‘the One sign feature’. The feature is a crossplatform, profile-based, Sign Insertion method, which works when a password is successfully accepted, thereby inserting the sign on the document where selected. It is proposed as a solution to the "Small Screen, Too Much Work, Less Authenticity and Less Accountability" problem statement, which are common limitations of all the current solution offerings. The paper does a brief comparative study of all the popular technologies available in the industry used to digitally sign a document; discussing their drawbacks and drastic impacts of their limitations in terms of loss of money, productivity, and time. All this with the motive to prove that the 'Smart era' of Online Signatures is yet to come to its breakthrough and that there is still a wide opportunity gap for a system that could increase Data Privacy, overcome the limitations of the current systems, and eliminate loopholes.