Digital
Signature
We are now providing
Digital Signature of Capricorn.
A Digital
Signature Certificate, like hand written signature, establishes
the identity of the sender filing the documents through internet
which sender can not revoke or deny. Accordingly, Digital
Signature Certificate is a digital equivalent of a hand written
signature which
has an extra data attached electronically to any message or a document.
Digital Signature also ensures that no alterations are made to the
data once the document has been digitally signed. A DSC is normally
valid for 1 or 2 years, after which it can be renewed.
These
certificates are accepted for IFFCO, Northern Railway, MCA 21,
E-filing, E -tendering etc...
A
Digital Signature is a method of verifying the authenticity of
an electronic document. Digital signatures are going to play an
important role in our lives with the gradual electronization of
records and documents.
The IT Act has given legal recognition to digital signature meaning,
thereby, that legally it has the same value as handwritten or
signed signatures affixed to a document for its verification.
The Information Technology Act, 2000 provides
the required legal sanctity to the digital signatures based on
asymmetric cryptosystems. The digital signatures are now accepted
at par with handwritten signatures and the electronic documents
that have been digitally signed are treated at par with paper
documents.
What can I use digital certificates for?
Three uses are outlined here. Your digital certificate could be
used to allow you to access membership-based web sites automatically
without entering a user name and password. It can allow others
to verify your "signed" e-mail or other electronic documents,
assuring your intended reader(s) that you are the genuine author
of the documents, and that the content has not been corrupted
or tampered with in any way. Finally, digital certificates enable
others to send private messages to you: anyone else who gets his/her
hands on a message meant for you will not be able to read it.
Sending Digitally Signed Mail :
You can use your Digital Certificate to digitally sign your emails
sent through Outlook Express / MS-Outlook etc. Digitally signing
the mail authenticates your identity and enables the receiver
to ensure that the mail has come from you only. It also ensures
that the content of the mail is not tampered in the transit and
the mail received by the receiver is the same what you have sent.
WHO
NEEDS A DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE ?
Under
MCA21 Every person who is required to sign manual documents and
returns filed with ROC is required to obtain a Digital Signature
Certificate (DSC). Accordingly following have to obtain Digital
Signature Certificate:
1. Directors
2. Auditors
3. Company Secretary - Whether in practice or in job.
4. Bank Officials - for Registration and Satisfaction of Charges
5. Other Authorized Signatories.
Under
Income Tax persion sigining the Income Tax return is required to
obtain Digital Signature. Even any person filing the Income Tax
return can obtain Digital Signature and file Income Tax return
voluntarily. If Income tax return is filed with Digital Sigture,
then Acknowledgement is not required to send to Banglore CPC.
For
filing tenders online every authorised person for filing tender
is required to obtain Digital Signature.
TYPES
OF DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE
There
are 3 types of Digital Signature Certificates, having different
security levels, namely :- Class-1, Class-2, Class-3.
Class
1
Class
2
Class
3
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