Mobile Electronic Signature Consortium (original) (raw)

Mobile Electronic Signature Consortium (mSign) was founded in 1999 and comprised 35 member companies. In October 2000, the consortium published an -interface defining a protocol allowing service providers to obtain a mobile (digital) signature from a mobile phone subscriber. In 2001, mSign gained industry-wide coverage when it became apparent that Brokat, a company of one of the founders, also obtained a process patent in Germany for using the mobile phone to generate digital signatures.