The invention provides a character display method and
system as well as an
electronic signature device. The method comprises the steps that the
electronic signature device is subjected to power-on initialization and accesses a terminal; the terminal waits for receiving an instruction sent by the
electronic signature device; and when the instruction received by the terminal is a character
data acquisition request instruction, whether a character
data set containing character data corresponding to a to-be-displayed character and signature data corresponding to the character
data set exist in a storage region or not is judged, if the character
data set and the signature data do not exist, a
font library acquisition request is sent to the initialized device to acquire a
font library, if the character data set and the signature data exist, the character data set containing the character data corresponding to the to-be-displayed character and the signature data corresponding to the character data set are selected out according to the character
data acquisition request instruction and sent to the electronic signature device, the electronic signature device verifies the signature data by utilizing a
verification key, and the to-be-displayed character is displayed according to the selected character data after the
verification is passed.