Is there any difference between Digital Certificate and Digital Signature?
Digital Signatures provide Authentication, Privacy, Non repudiation and Integrity in the virtual world . IT Act 2000 in India gives legal validity to electronic transactions that are digitally signed. Therefore we need digital signatures for secure messaging, online banking applications, online workflow applications, e-tendering, supply chain management etc. Digital Certificates are digital documents attesting to the binding of a public key to an individual or specific entity. They allow verification of the claim that a specific public key does in fact belong to a specific individual. Digital Certificates help prevent someone from using a phony key to impersonate someone else. In their simplest form, certificates contain a public key and a name. As commonly used, a certificate also contains an expiration date, the name of the Certifying Authority that issued the certificate, a serial number etc. Most importantly, it contains the digital signature of the certificate issuer. OR A digital
