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
- Class 2 Certificates
- As e-filing is made compulsory in ROC, every director / signing authority needs to have their Digital Signature Certificate. Its now mandatory to obtain Class-2 or Class-2 with PAN Encryption Digital Signature Certificate for any person who is required to sign manual documents and returns filed with ROC as per MCA21. Also an Individual is required to obtain Class-2 DSC with PAN Encryption for e-filing his return with Income Tax, India.
- Class 3 Certificates
- Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate is the upgraded version of Class 2 Digital Signature Certificate. By Using This Certificate You can Participate/Bid in Any Kind of On-line Tenders/Auction across India. To participate in the e-tendering process, every vendor is required to use a Class 3 Digital Signatures Certificate.
Where can I use Digital Signature Certificates?
You can use Digital Signature Certificates for the following:
- For secure email and web-based transactions, or to identify other participants of web-based transactions.
- To prove ownership of a domain name and establish SSL/ TLS encrypted secured sessions between your website and the user for web based transactions.
- As a developer, for proving authorship of a code and retaining integrity of the distributed software programs.
- For signing web forms, e-tendering documents, filing income tax returns, to access membership-based websites automatically without entering a user name and password etc.
Applications of DSC
- MCA e-filing
- Income Tax
- Foreign Trade
- E-Tendering/E-Procurement
- Employee Provident Fund
What is an eToken?
USB e-Token can be password protected so that Digital Signature is never lost when computer is formatted or internet explorer changed. A virus cannot affect USB Token, and the digital certificate stored would always be secure. As per CCA's Office Order, with effective from 7th December, 2013, eMudhra will be issuing Class 2 and 3 Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) only on FIPS 140-2 level 2 certified crypto tokens. eMudhra recommends TrustKey tokens. Trust Key token which is the most accepted, secure and widely used token device in India for storing your Digital Signatures
Procedure for submitting Digital Signature application in digitalcenter portal with 4 easy steps
- Step1. login to digitalcenter.co.in
- Step2. click on add new PAN, fill up the all details and upload all essential documents with self attested then click on submit button
- Step3. Once form has submitted , Our Team will get in touch with customer for getting video ,email and mobile verification.
- Step4. After verification , you can download digital signature from digitalcenter.co.in.