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…
Zoho Sign and eID Easy announce collaboration for Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) Zoho Sign is the latest electronic signature service to adopt eID Easy’s aggregation service for Qualified Electronic Signatures. Zoho Sign is a leading company in the field of electronic signatures. This integration allows Zoho Sign to offer eIDAS 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…
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…
eIDAS standard can have multiple digital signature profiles. These mean how much proof is embedded into the signature metadata for later validation. Following table contains summary of supported eIDAS digital signature profiles XAdES CAdES PAdES STANDARD BASELINE STANDARD BASELINE STANDARD BASELINE XAdES-BES XAdES-B CAdES-BES CAdES-B PAdES-BES PAdES-B XAdES-EPES CAdES-EPES PAdES-EPES Read more…
CEF eSignature building block is very powerful tool. However it is daunting task to get started with it. Because of the complexity most of the smaller development agencies reject all project that has qualified electronic signature component. There are also big players with big budgets who can help you. For Read more…
Technology Here is listed some of the tools, frameworks and technologies we are working to achieve secure user identification and creating digital signatures. Apache2 web server which has great built in support for Client Certificate Authentication. This means that it will request end user to present certificate from his ID Read more…