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Enterprise PKI (ePKI) for Electronic Notarization and Legalization
Speed, efficiency, security and the need to drive towards low carbon footprint ecosystems - a necessity for e-Notarization and e-Legalization.Digital signature legislation across many countries provides the necessary baseline from which e-Notarization and e-Legalization services can be driven. Within the United Kingdom Government enacted the Electronic Communications Act 2000 and issued the Electronic Signatures Regulations 2002 . These laws provided the necessary legal framework for the recognition of electronic signatures. Each industry sector was able to construct the necessary internal framework to allow each business or profession to embrace the legislation and the derive the benefits to be obtained from it. Many notaries from England and Wales have already adopted e-Notarization using CDS (Certified Document Services) with widespread adoption planned during 2010 with the planned launch of an e-Legalization service through the Foreign & Commonwealth Office following in the footsteps of the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Authentication Unit.
- Enables PDF security - including document integrity, authorship and time-stamping
- No plug-ins or extra software needed - Certified PDFs & Approval Signatures are automatically recognised by Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader
- Helps meet company document security policy and regulatory compliance for electronic document transmission and storage
- Cost Effective – simply purchase packs starting from only £1517 for 5 DocumentSign Digital IDs (includes 5 USB devices)
- Includes additional 10% of initial purchase in form of free Digital IDs for user attrition and/or support considerations
Maintained Electronic Document Integrity & Authenticity through Digital Signatures
Authenticity and Security. The identities of notaries within the CDS program are fully authenticated. The cryptographic key material used by the notary is secured by a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 hardware device. Both these requirements provide the high level of assurance necessary for a relying party to be able to authenticate the underlying transaction witnessed by the notary. Highly reliable revocation and timestamping capabilities of the CDS
Data integrity. Using a GlobalSign DocumentSign certificate in combination with a PAdES (ETSI TS 102 778) complaint signing tool such as Adobe® Acrobat® provides long term data integrity by embedding signature validation information and a secure timestamp details. Support for LTV (Long Term Validation) signatures is essential as notarial documents must be referenced and guaranteed as authentic many years after the initial act took place.
Efficiency. Enablement of a low carbon footprint e-Notarization capability (i.e. no requirement to move physical documents between relying parties) allows a far more efficient and effective service for all stakeholders leading to wider use and higher levels of inter-company and inter-country transactions allowing new business models to flourish.
DocumentSign Digital IDs are available through the ePKI platform, offering easy management, reporting, controls and auditing of issued IDs.
