Over the last two decades, in the field of secure communication and financial on-line applications, we have witnessed an explosive growth in biometric personal authentication systems which are covenant with a measurable physical characteristic or behavioral trait. On-line refers to making use of the time functions of the signing process. Verification of on-line signature as a biometric modality still is challenging fields of research, since the number of pointer based devices emerges as input devices for many e-commerce and m-commerce applications. The deployment of automatic handwritten signature verification with technology still remains open for novel methods due to inter-class and intra-class variations of signature. Since the area is currently one of the most on the go and the bulk of research is very large, this survey paper covers some of the examples of the ways.