Enforceability and Non-Repudiation of Transactions
DocuSign takes the security, integrity, and enforceability of the documents signed on their platform very seriously. As noted in their documentation at https://www.docusign.com/how-it-works/security, DocuSign employs best-in-class security and privacy standards for and industry-leading technology to ensure the integrity of signatures for documents signed using their platform. As a result, DocuSign is willing to attest to the validity of documents signed with their technology, allowing DocuSign to warrant compliance with the ESIGN Act.
All documents signed on the DocuSign platform utilize a hashing algorithm you can use to verify that the documents have not been modified, and DocuSign's PKI digital certificate technology secures documents and signatures with tamper-evident seals. These seals are visible from most PDF viewers including Adobe Reader and BlueBeam, as shown below.
Each document signed in TPM using DocuSign will be now include the tamper-evident seal. This seal allows confirmation of the following, without returning to TPM to review a vaulted copy of the document:
- The document has not been modified or tampered with since the signature was applied
- The signer's identity is valid
- The time of the signature was recorded properly.
Additionally, DocuSign provides this online utility you can use to verify a document signed on their platform: https://validator.docusign.com/.
Note: Documents downloaded individually from the TPM application will contain the tamper-evident seal. However, documents combined into a single PDF, as from the Print Draw Documents page, will not contain the DocuSign seal on the resulting PDF.