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Member Question: RON- What is the eSeal and Digital Certificate?
An eSeal is basically the electronic version of your notary stamp. It’s what you actually see on the document. It shows your name, that you are a New Jersey Notary Public, your commission number, and your expiration date. Its main job is to display your official notary seal information on an electronic or remotely notarized document. On its own, an eSeal does not secure the document. It is just the electronic form of the stamp.
A digital certificate works behind the scenes. You usually never see it, but it is what protects the document. It confirms that the notarization was really performed by you and it locks the document so that if anything is changed after the notarization, it will show that the document was tampered with. This is what makes an electronic or remote notarization trustworthy and verifiable.
The easiest way to think about it is this: the eSeal is what the seal looks like on the document, and the digital certificate is what makes the document secure. Both are used together in remote online notarization.
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Member Question: RON- What is the eSeal and Digital Certificate?
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