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Overview
Requirement
Types of DSC
Validity of DSC
Documents required
Video Verification
Class 2 DSC Discontinued

Requirement

Why this is required?



A Digital Signature Certificate authenticates your identity electronically. It also provides you with a high level of security for your online transactions by ensuring absolute privacy of the information exchanged using a Digital Signature Certificate. You can use certificates to encrypt information such that only the intended recipient can read it. You can digitally sign information to assure the recipient that it has not been changed in transit, and also verify your identity as the sender of the message.

You can use Digital Signature Certificates for the following:

  • For sending and receiving digitally signed and encrypted emails.

  • For carrying out secure web-based transactions, or to identify other participants of web-based transactions.

  • In eTendering, eProcurement, MCA [for Registrar of Companies efiling], Income Tax [for efiling income tax returns] Applications and also in many other applications.

  • For signing documents like MS Word, MS Excel and PDFs

Overview

Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) are the electronic format of  paper certificate like a driving License, passport etc. Certificates serve as proof of identity of an individual for a certain purpose; for example, a Passport identifies someone as a citizen of that country; Likewise, a Digital Signature Certificate can be presented electronically to prove your identity, to access information or services on the Internet or to sign certain documents digitally.


Basically it is set of public and private keys (Passwords) which is embedded inside a encrypted CD or crypto token (a device which looks similar to USB device but not a USB device

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