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What a captured signature does and does not prove

Signature Capture

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A captured signature is an operational control, not a legal signing instrument. It gives you a named counterparty, a timestamp, and a window that closes — the mark cannot be added or replaced once the movement has been approved, adjusted, completed or rejected. It is not a cryptographic digital signature: there is no certificate or key pair, and AWRA makes no eIDAS, ESIGN or UETA claim for it. It also does not verify identity; it records the name entered beside the drawing. For most delivery and custody disputes that is enough, because they are settled by showing a person their own mark.

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