Electronic signatures
In order to ensure security in processes and transactions carried out on Vortal platforms, our platforms use electronic signatures which guarantee the authenticity of data exchanged between users.
A digital signature is an ‘electronic signature process’ based on an asymmetrical cryptographic system composed of an alogorithm or series or alogorithms, by which a pair of assymetrical exclusive and interdependent keys are created which enable the holder to use a private key to declare the authorship of an electronic document to which their signature is inserted and matches their content, while the reader uses the public key to check if the signature was created by using the corresponding private key to determine if the electronic document was altered after the signature was affixed.
In accordance with the European directive 1999/93/CE, an electronic signature is the ‘result of an electronic processing of data able to constitute a legal object of individual and exclusive right to be used to ascertain the authorship of an electronic document so as to:
Unequivocally identify the holder as the author of the document;
ii) Its connection to the document depends solely on the will of the holder;
iii) Its connection with the document enables all and any incidental alteration to the contents of the document to be detected.”
