Meanings
nounwet signature (plural wet signatures)
plural wet signatures
- A physical signature on a document, typically done in ink.
A wet signature on an electronic form might be a scanned image of your analog signature. If you use a wet signature that's not part of a digital ID, the signature carries no validity, verification, security, or authenticity.
2009, Ted Padova, Angie Okamoto, PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 323
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