期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：43-53
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：Information and communication technologies have influenced a whole variety of business processes in the past few years. New emerging methods and techniques are trying to find their place and application in enterprises. This is the case of documents’ signing, too. Handwritten signature has been used as a traditional method for centuries. However, it seems today that it cannot provide a satisfactory level of security and confidence anymore. Therefore, these days new biometric and digital signature schemes are gaining on popularity. The paper provides a comprehensive study of three approaches to the problem of documents’ signing. Traditional handwritten, biometric data based, and digital signatures are defined, characterized, and analyzed. Based on the technical characteristics of each signature method, corresponding utility functions are derived. These functions are built upon the profit functions which represent profits gained by the usage of various cryptographic and authentication methods. In the same time basic cost analysis is performed in this paper. Finally, based on the findings and conclusions presented in the paper, further studies in this perspective field will be subject of our interest in the future.
关键词：biometrics; cost analysis; digital signature; handwritten signature.
