A Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) is a secure digital key that certifies the identity of the holder, issued by a Certifying Authority (CA). It typically contains your identity (name, email, country, APNIC account name, and your public key). Digital Certificates use Public Key Infrastructure meaning data that has been digitally signed or encrypted by a private key can only be decrypted by its corresponding public key. A digital certificate is an electronic “credit card” that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web. Applications of DSC:
1. MCA filing
2. Income Tax, TDS & GST filing
3. Foreign Trade
4. e-tendering/e-procurement
5. Employee Provident Fund
Digital Signature Certificates have become a statutory requirement in various applications. We, issues three classes of certificates to individuals and organizations namely Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 digital signature certificate, in compliance with the rules of the Indian IT Act, 2000 and the X.509 Certificate Policy for India Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) published by Controller of Certifying Authorities. It is important to know about the types and classes of DSC before making an application.
Get class 3 Digital Signature at a low cost.
Class 1 certificate
The Class 1 Digital Signature certificates are issued for both business personnel and private individual use. Such certificates assure that the information in the application given by the subscriber does not conflict with the information in well-recognized consumer databases. The verification requirements for these certificates include:
(i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric,
(ii) paper-based application form and supporting documents or,
(iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. The Private Key generation and storage could be in software.
Class 2 certificate
The Class 2 Digital Signature certificates are issued for both business personnel and private individual use. This level is applicable to environments where risks and consequences pertaining to data compromise are moderate. The verification requirements for these certificates include:
(i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric,
(ii) paper-based application form and supporting documents or,
(iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. Private Key generation and storage must be in Hardware cryptographic device validated to, FIPS 140-2 level 2.
Class 3 certificate
This certificate is issued to individuals and organizations. Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate is applicable to environments where threats to data and consequences of the failure of security services are high, for instance, high-value transactions or high levels of fraud risk. The verification requirements for these certificates include:
(i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric,
(ii) Paper-based application form and supporting documents or
(iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. The Aadhaar eKYC OTP and Aadhaar eKYC Biometric are the verification requirements.
OUR DSC SERVICES INCLUDE
Providing and Guiding you on Digital Signature Certificate Application Forms.
Collection of forms along with supporting documents & getting verified from LRA.
Getting you a Digital Signature Certificate issued from Certifying Authority and doing the installation of the same.
Technical Support & Guidance for 2 yrs.
» What are the types of Digital Signature Certificate
There are 3 types of Digital Signature Certificates, namely:- Class-1, Class-2, and Class-3. Each has its own level of security and is meant for a particular category of professionals and or sectors of the industry.
» What are the Components of a Digital Signature Certificate
A Public key, Your name and e-mail address, Expiration date of the public key, Name of the company, Serial number of the Digital ID, and Digital signature of the CA (Certification Authority).
» Who requires Digital Signature Certificate
All the authorized signatories of the company and professionals who sign the manual documents and returns filed with ROC, Income Tax Department, etc. are required to obtain a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) like Directors, CA’s/Auditors, Company Secretary (Whether in practice or in the job), Bank Officials (for Registration and Satisfaction of Charges), and Other Authorized Signatories. DSC is also compulsory for Persons getting Tax Audited.
» Why Sending Digitally Signed Mail
You can also use your Digital Signature Certificate to digitally sign your emails sent through Outlook Express / MS-Outlook etc. Digitally signing the mail authenticates your identity and enables the receiver to ensure that the mail has come from you only. It also ensures that the content of the mail has not tampered with in transit and the mail received by the receiver is the same as what you have sent.
» What is the Use of Digital Signature Certificate
Digital Signature Certificate can be used to access secured zones of web sites where member login is required, surpassing the requirement of entering the user name and password. It insures by means of verification and validation that the user is who he/she claims to be. This is done by combining the user’s credential to the digital certificate and in turn, this method uses one point of authentication. Digital certificates ensure confidentiality and ensure that messages can only be read by authorized intended recipients. Digital certificates also verify date and time so that senders or recipients can not dispute if the message was actually sent or received.
» Why USB e-token
Information about Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) resides in the certificate section of Internet Options of a computer system but keeping DSC details on a computer system in this way has the following drawbacks:
