Imagine a life without carrying a pen and no printed application forms required to be filled in, for opening an account in a bank or for getting a PAN card. It was the signature put by applicant on the form that was preventing them from going online. But now, it is possible to replace hand written signature by electronic signature, which can be put in documents in electronic form. VSIGN offers a service called eSign that will allows Aadhaar users to sign documents electronically, thereby saving time and efforts for them.

Objective of eSign service is to offer on-line service to citizens for instant signing of their documents securely in a legally acceptable form. Two major challenges involved are (a) authentication of the user and (b) Trusted method of signing. Aadhaar based authentication is carried out to address the first challenge and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used to securely sign the user document and establish the trust.

Below are some of the use cases of eSign service