Digital Signatures – Basics of Hashes and Encryption

When dealing with online contracting, blockchain, clickwrap agreements, smart contracts, or just generally these days (and certainly in the future), you will come across the terms “hash” and “encryption.” Especially when discussing digital signatures. We’ll try to distill these a bit for you.  These are all regularly used in the transmittal of electronic information and verification of the information, the sender and/or receiver. Read more