Abstract: Method and system for signer self-managed, encryption-based identification and signature secret management to verify the signer and to legitimize basic electronic signature without the use of certificates, tokens or PKI while signing electronic document off-line, on-line (corporate network) or on-line using a web based document. When form is completed, the signing procedure is intercepted by the software to check if signer secret and signer information is present on signer device, else the signer can enter required information and additional system information is gathered. The signature information is validated against the stored encrypted signer information. Both the signature ceremony and the encrypted signer secrets and identification information are embedded in the document for delivery to document recipient. The signer's secret is never compromised, as it is at all times created or updated by signer via self-management software and never revealed to an administrator.