India, June 13 -- A signature is nothing but a handwritten representation of an individual's name, or any other depiction that a person uses on documents as proof of their identity.

The history of signatures dates back to 3100 B.C. The signatures of a scribe named Gar Ama on a clay tablet and Spanish warrior El Cid are considered some of the first hand-written signatures in the history of mankind. The State of Frauds Act, passed by the English Parliament, made signing compulsory in contracts in the sixteenth century. From there, we started to sign everything-government documents, school permission slips, banking forms, job applications-to prove our identity and use services.

In this digital era, though, traditional signatures are being ...