Return to Article Details The falsification of documents is a crime that generates serious consequences for the legal security of Ecuadorians. The objective was to analyze the falsification of documents and the protection of the legal good in criminal matters, from a theoretical approach, based on the methodology of the bibliographic review and exegetic analysis, the results of which evidenced that the falsification of physical and digital documents is classified as a crime against the public faith, highlighting the importance of the sanction of the falsification of digital documents, because the Convention of the Council of Europe on Cybernetics addressed this issue, based mainly on the development and advancement of technology in the 21st century, which forced criminal legislation to introduce penalties for those who attack the authenticity of documents adulterate or appropriate without any justification for electronic messages or signatures In conclusion, in Ecuador, the penalty for falsifying documents has been legislated as a crime against the public faith that essentially protects the right to the truth, based on the premise that this crime injures the truth and, consequently, the entire trust that about them must be taken in the different relationships generated by their traffic. Download Download PDF