The emergence of digital contracts, digital archives and digital signatures have dramatically reduced the cost and complexity if doing business electronically. However, doubts about the long-term stability and reliability of digital documents lead many users to still create and rely on paper copies for the ultimate authority. This is because, unlike digital documents, paper documents are difficult to forge and difficult to alter without trace. While storage of paper archives is well understood, low-tech and does not demand a security infrastructure that deals with retaining secret passwords over very long periods, it is expensive and clumsy. Existing techniques for signing and verifying digital documents rely on the extremely long-term stability of software companies – a breed not noted for its longevity.

DTMI is committed to solving some of these pressing problems of the e-business age, making digital documents as reliable and as simple to use and maintain as paper documents, but at a fraction of the cost, and without relying on the continued existence on any single third party – even including DTMI. DTMI’s products and services offer innovative, cost-effective and easy-to-use ways of enhancing the usability and reliability of digital documents over the very long periods demanded by legal contracts.