Digital Signature
A digital signature is a mathematical technique for verifying the integrity and validity of a letter, device, or digital document. It's the digital equivalent of a handwritten signature or a stamped seal, but it has a lot more protection built-in.
What is a digital signature certificate?
A digital signature is a mathematical technique for verifying the integrity and validity of a letter, device, or digital document. It's the digital equivalent of a handwritten signature or a stamped seal, but it has a lot more protection built in. The aim of a digital signature is to prevent tampering and impersonation in digital communications.
A Digital Signature Certificate is a secure digital key provided by certifying authority to validate and confirm the identity of the person who holds the certificate. To produce signatures, digital signatures make use of public key encryptions. A digital signature certificate (DSC) includes information such as the user's name, pin code, country, email address, certificate issue date, and certifying authority name. They may also be used to accept informed consent by signers.
What are the objectives of a DSC?
Digital signatures are used to meet three important objectives of information security which are as follows
- Integrity
- Authentication
- Non-repudiation
What are the advantages of DSC?
- Reduction of cost and time
Instead of signing hard copy documents physically and scanning them to send it time consuming but with DSC you can send them more quickly.
- Data integrity
Digitally signed signatures cannot be altered or edited after signing so it makes the data safe and secure.
- Authenticity of documents
Digitally signed documents provide assurance of the signer’s authenticity.
What are the disadvantages of DSC?
Expiry
Like all the other technological products, these DSCs also have a small shelf life of 1, 2 or 3 years, as per the requirement of the individual.
What are the disadvantages of a DSC?
- Log on and Select your Package
Log on to the onfiling under Digital Certification Services’ section, Select the Package
- Fill the necessary details
Now fill in all the details related to Class of DSC, validity, applicant name and contact details, address and identity details , GST number and identity details , declaration, documents of identity and address proof.
- Proof of identity and address
The supporting document provided as proof of identity and address
- Post the documents required
After verification DSC will be issued.
Required Documents
| Acceptable Document | Document Type | Additional Details |
|---|---|---|
| Address proof | . | . |
| Identity proof | . | . |
FAQs
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A Digital Signature Certificate authenticates your identity electronically. As it ensures high level of security for online transactions by ensuring absolute privacy of the information exchanged using a Digital Signature Certificate. And the DSC is used to encrypt information such that only the intended recipient can read it. You can digitally sign information to assure the recipient that it has not been changed in transit, and also verify your identity as the sender of the message.
No, you cannot have multiple email address.
It is an electronic form of a signature which is used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and it ensure that there is no duplication of the original content of the message or document that has been sent. DSC is easily transportable and cannot be imitated by someone else. This is performed to make sure that the original signed message arrived cannot be later denied by the sender.
No. You will not be able to use one SSL certificate on different websites with different domain names due to the reason that the certificate is explicitly associated with the exact host and domain name. A wild card SSL certificate can be issued which supports different sub domains like abc.emudhra.com, def.emudhra.com etc.
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