Signature Policy Details Dialog

3.25 Signature Policy Details Dialog

Use to select the signature policy for task participants to use.

Digital signatures provide a mechanism for the nonrepudiation of digitally-signed human tasks. This ability to mandate that a participant acting on a task signs the details and their action before the task is updated ensures that they cannot repudiate it later.

Element	Description
No signature required	Select for participants to send and act upon tasks without providing a signature. This is the default policy.
Password required	Select for participants to specify a signature before sending tasks to the next participant. Participants must re-enter their password while acting on a task. The password is used to generate the digital signature. A digital signature authenticates the identity of the message sender or document signer. This ensures that the original content of the sent message is unchanged.
Digital certificate required	Select only if participants possess a digital certificate for the nonrepudiation of digitally-signed human tasks. A digital certificate establishes the participant's credentials. It is issued by a certification authority (CA). It contains the following: Your name A serial number The expiration dates A copy of the certificate holder's public key (used for encrypting messages and digital signatures) The digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that message authenticity can be established The CA names and CA CRL and URLs of the issuing authorities must be configured separately.

Element

Description

No signature required

Select for participants to send and act upon tasks without providing a signature. This is the default policy.

Password required

Select for participants to specify a signature before sending tasks to the next participant. Participants must re-enter their password while acting on a task. The password is used to generate the digital signature. A digital signature authenticates the identity of the message sender or document signer. This ensures that the original content of the sent message is unchanged.

Digital certificate required

Select only if participants possess a digital certificate for the nonrepudiation of digitally-signed human tasks. A digital certificate establishes the participant's credentials. It is issued by a certification authority (CA). It contains the following:

Your name
A serial number
The expiration dates
A copy of the certificate holder's public key (used for encrypting messages and digital signatures)
The digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that message authenticity can be established

The CA names and CA CRL and URLs of the issuing authorities must be configured separately.