DSC (Digital Signature Certificate)

What is Digital Certificate?

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

Capricorn offers different class of certificates to help organization and individuals secure online transactions with legal validity as per the Indian IT Act, 2000.

Capricorn certificates conform to x.509 standard of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in India where in additionally these are issued as per IVG and IOG guidelines issued by the office of Controller of Certifying Authorities.

There are various Type and Class of DSC, the information below would help you to arrive to the right certificate for your needs.

Type of Certificates

• Sign

  The DSC could only be used for Signing a document. (The most popular Certificate)

  The most popular usage is signing the PDF file for Tax Returns, MCA and other websites.

• Encrypt

  The DSC would be used to Encrypt a document, it is popularly used in tender portal, to help your company encrypt the documents and upload.

  You could also use the certificate to encrypt and send classified information.

  We are selling Encrypt certificate as a standalone product as well.

• Sign & Encrypt

  You could buy both Sign & Encrypt DSC by using this category.

Validity of the Certificate

You could buy certificates with a validity upto three years. (The validity is controlled by law, and you cannot buy certificates more than three years and less than One year validity)

Classes of Certificates

The IT law allows us three Classes of DSC, however we only sell Class 2 and Class 3 certificates. We are not selling Class 1 Certificates.

The difference between Class 2 and Class 3 is verification guidelines.

• Class 2

  This is most popular class of certificates, and most applications would recognize this class of certificates.

• Class 3

  This level of assurance is required generally by Tender portals and some highly sensitive websites.

  If you opt for class 3 certificate, all applications which are created for Class 2, should be able to recognize your certificates.

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