Prior Publisher
The Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (ADFSL)
Abstract
The Information Technology Act 2000 has enacted in India on 9th June 2000. This Act has mentioned provision of authentication of electronic document. It is the need of hour at that time that such provision is needed in the Indian Law system, especially for electronic commerce and electronic governance. Electronic commerce”, which involve the use of alternatives to paper based methods of communication and storage information. To do electronic commerce there should be authentication of particular document. The working of internet is the documents are traveling in terms of bits from one destination to other destination, through various media like – Co-axial cable, fiber optic, satellite etc. While traveling this document there is probability of making changes in that document by any third party is high or some document may get changed due to noise/disturbance in communication media. This Act required to provide legal recognition carried out by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication.
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Recommended Citation
Pawar, R. G.; Sawant, B. S.; and Kaiwade, A.
(2007)
"Information Technology Act 2000 in India - Authentication of E-Documents,"
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law: Vol. 2
, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2007.1023
Available at:
https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol2/iss2/4
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