A cloud-based signature certificate is a digital certificate that is used to create and verify qualified electronic signatures (QES). It is stored and managed in the cloud, rather than on a local device or server. A signature certificate contains information about the signer, including their name, email address, and the Read more…
Medical and Pharma industry around the world uses FDAs Guidelines 21 CFR Part 11 as global standard. This regulation was drafted at a year 1997 and these days you can satisfy these requirements easily most high quality electronic signatures. FDA here means US Food and Drug Administration. Qualified Electronic Signatures Read more…
Every company operating in the EU and in many other regions needs some Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) if they want to become fully digital. In most countries contracts like employment contract, employment contract termination, warranties, IP transfer or many other types need QES to be valid. Usually these documents are Read more…
Here is a quick overview of how documents can or must be created and signed in the European Union based on the Estonian Civil Code Act. Since EU law is quite similar then most of this applies in rest of the EU countries as well. Law in Estonian is in Read more…
Is your company currently using a document management system but still downloading, signing and uploading documents back into the cloud? With over 70% of market share, chances are that you are using something like Microsoft’s Sharepoint since it is one of the most popular document management systems for large corporates. Read more…
European Digital Identity wallet is in the process of finalizing technical specifications. Among the main goals the wallet must be able to: Create qualified electronic signatures Contain and allow sharing “electronic attestiations of attributes” about the person At the same time we have all the building blocks already available and Read more…
eID Easy helps businesses adopt strong and Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES). We work with Trust Service Providers (TSPs) and integrate their service into the businesses workflows. With eID Easy as a trusted integration partner the TSP has an easier sales process and faster time to close the deal. What kind Read more…
Arnis Parsovs is greatest single researcher who has found and helped to fix many security vulnerabilities around Estonian eID card scheme. I can only assume that other countries have all kinds of issues still present. Latest published discovery shows how it is possible to login into freely chosen website that Read more…
This article explores how digital signatures in PDF work and how to digitally sign the PDF document when signature is created in remote app, device or service. In the end you will also find references that will help you implement external PDF digital signatures. More details from ETSI 319 142-1 Read more…
XAdES – is eIDAS compliant flexible digital signature format in XML format. It has information of what kind of files are signed by whom. It can contain timestamp and OCSP. It can contain file references or even contents in the XML. More info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAdES ASIC-E (.asice, .scs, .bdoc, .adoc, Read more…