PKI – Old Technology has a New Rival

Currently, when most people think of digital signature capturing the first technology that comes to mind is Public Key Infrastructure or (“PKI”). However, the old guard of PKI is a dying technology. PKI is a good solution with serious limitations that will hinder and impede its continued growth. PKI is both expensive to implement and expensive to maintain. PKI is also time consuming. Professionals do not want to slow down the sales cycle to send someone to a third party certificate authority just to make a sale.



PKI authenticates but it fails to identify who a user is. The American Bar Association identified this critical weakness in its ABA PKI Assessment Guidelines, View the rest of this article