A vision: signing as a trust layer.
Why we think of Signing Flows as a platform that orchestrates, and where it can grow.
Throughout this blog we have discussed principles: what a signature proves, how it holds up over time, how identity is verified, how workflows are designed, and how it all fits into a country's infrastructure. This final article in the series explains, briefly and directly, how those principles translate into the vision with which we are building Signing Flows at Interfase.
Signing as a layer, not an application
Most signing tools began as applications: a place where you upload a document and send it out for signature. Our vision is different. We think of signing as a trust layer that sits between people, organizations and the systems they already use, and that offers all of them the same things: identity proportionate to risk, signatures in standard formats, trusted time, independent validation, and evidence that can still be proven many years from now.
- At the bottom, the providers. Certificates, remote signing, timestamps, national identities and trusted lists from different countries, linked through connectors.
- In the middle, orchestration. Workflows, levels, policies, chained evidence and isolation between organizations.
- On top, integration. A published interface and signed events, so that signing reaches wherever each organization already works.
Principles that guide growth
- Open standards. So that every signature can be verified without us.
- Composition. To add providers, countries and methods as pieces of a catalog.
- Orchestrate the core, choreograph the edges. So that proof does not fragment and integration does not become complicated.
- Operational honesty. If something is unavailable or a third party fails, we say so and record it; we never silently drop to a lower level.
- Crypto agility. To navigate the post quantum transition smoothly.
- Designed for providers too. So that a trust service provider can operate the platform for its own customers.
Why now, and why from here
Signing has stopped being a technical problem and become an orchestration problem: there are more providers, more levels, more countries, more systems and higher demands for proof. At the same time, the region is making progress on mutual recognition and digital identity. Members of Interfase have worked with digital certificates and public key infrastructure since 2000, and Signing Flows is how we put that experience to work for this new stage.
Signing Flows grows out of a vision: signing as a trust layer that connects providers, organizations and systems, with open standards, composition, orchestration with evidence, event based integration and crypto agility. It is the practical expression of the principles this blog explains.