Signority is a

cloud-based Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

electronic signature An electronic signature, or e-signature, is data that is logically associated with other data and which is used by the signatory to sign the associated data. This type of signature has the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as ...

provider based in

Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...

, Canada that provides web-based public and private cloud electronic signature solutions. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Jane He and Qingbo Jin.

History

Signority has its headquarters in

, Canada. It was incorporated as a federal and a provincial (Ontario) corporation on November 19, 2010 by two Canadian entrepreneurs: Jane He and Qingbo Jin. At inception, the company name was ''EPEink'' (Electronic Pen/Paper Electronic Ink) and the product name was ''GreenSignatures''. In January 2013, the company and the product were re-branded to ''Signority''. In May 2024 Signority was acquired by FileCloud, a content collaboration platform. FileCloud is a content collaboration platform (CCP) that offers compliance, data governance, data leak protection, data retention, and digital rights management capabilities.

Patents and product

Signority has had two applications filed to

United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alex ...

: #A patent application is a break through in the incorporation complicated digital signature technology, or PKI

Public Key Infrastructure A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facil ...

into a

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is co ...

offering. PKI is highly secure, and is recognized by global legislative bodies. Conversely, the legal weight of electronic signatures is a matter for debate in many regions outside of North America, and within specific sectors within North America, such as banks and medical institutions. PKI usually requires

on-premises On- premises software (abbreviated to on-prem, and incorrectly referred to as on-premise) is installed and runs on computers on the premises of the person or organization using the software, rather than at a remote facility such as a server farm ...

software (can be combined with hardware devices) that must be installed at both servers and the clients that utilize PKI. It ensures document signing nonrepudiation and document integrity within an organization, but is not practical when recipients are outside the organization, such as when recipients are external to the organization hosting the PKI servers. Signority invented a method to bring PKI into its

offering, by never generating and storing

private key Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a public key and a corresponding private key. Key pairs are generated with cryptographic alg ...

s on its servers. The

is generated on the fly at the user end each time. The method was invented by

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

Professors

Carlisle Adams Carlisle M. Adams is a Canadian cryptographer and computer security researcher. Formerly senior cryptographer at Entrust, he is currently a professor at the University of Ottawa. His notable work includes the design (with Stafford Tavares) of t ...

, who previously designed CAST algorithm, and Guy-Vincent Jourdan. #A patent application for two signing methods: ''Real-Time Sign'', which incorporates electronic evidence (audio and video) during the signing process to meet global legislation, and ''Open Sign'': a time saver for document administrators that enables large volume public recipients signing template-based forms. The inventors are founders Jane He and Qingbo Jin.

External links

Official Website

References

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History

Patents and product

See also

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