tion and protection. An electronic signature, as defined by the Electronic Communications Act 2000, has
a similar effect in relation to a commercial agreement. [Government] 
object has not been altered and, in some contexts, may be used to authenticate the identity of the sender. [Computer and
n.,
 Any system handling binary data, as opposed to an analogue system. [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., In electronic commerce, a system to confirm the identity of a message's sender as well as the authentici