What is an Identity Proofing Service Provider for QTSPs and CAs? An Identity Proofing Service Provider ‘(IPSP’), also called a Registration Authority (RA), is the entity to which a TSP delegates verification of trust service subjects in order to issue document signing certificates. The relevant regulation is found in Specification Read more…
Mexico is becoming very fast very advanced digital society. For example most working age people have their personal document signing certificates, all electronic invoices and tax declarations must be signed digitally with the certificate. For digital data NOM 151 data preservation service is used very actively. Mexico has in total Read more…
Event took place on 28th of November in Bengaluru and was hosted by eMudhra. Here are a few highlights from presentations given on this event and you can also see the full recording of the livestream from Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR3TBKajl1o Members present were Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Read more…
Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world with around 277 million people and tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of them have active secure personal document signing certificates. Indonesian law separates electronic signature into 2 groups: a) Uncertified and b) Certified Law text is available Read more…
On the 11th of October, ENISA in collaboration with the European Commission organized the 9th consecutive year the Trust Services and eID Forum, renamed and on the 12th of October, D-TRUST in cooperation with TÜViT held the 15th CA-Day. I was visiting the event physically on both days and was Read more…
Imagine that you have been sent a document with an electronic signature. How can you be sure that the signature there is valid? There are a few important things to consider that are explained below. Electronic signatures fall into 2 broad categories: 1) Simple electronic signatures and 2) Qualified or Read more…
One of the most common features of a document signing application is the ability to add the visual representation (or plainly put, an image) of the user’s signature to a pdf. This article describes an approach where a base64 encoded image is used as the visual representation of the user’s Read more…
Background:If you want to register .ee domain in Estonia then you need to sign the registration request with Qualified Electronic Signature – QES. Host.ee is a leading domain registration and web hosting service provider based in Estonia. The company offers a wide range of services, including domain registration, web hosting, Read more…
One of the first questions is can you trust the signature if you receive an electronically signed document? ETSI has established a technical committee (TC) electronic signatures and infrastructures (ESI) to address these questions. ETSI is an international organization producing globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems. eID Easy is helping Read more…
A Canadian court made a recent decision where a legally binding contract was signed electronically by texting the picture of the contract and being replied by “Thumbs up” emoji 👍. Value of this contract was C$82,000 ($61,442). You can read more about the case from https://www.canlii.org/en/sk/skkb/doc/2023/2023skkb116/2023skkb116.html and easier to read Read more…
