Remote signatures & remote seals: Planning, testing & certification of your trust service

As a provider of remote signatures and seals, you play a decisive role in improving the user-friendliness of the electronic signature and therefore simplifying paperless signature processes. The alpha and omega of creating electronic (remote) signatures: a trustworthy environment. In order to provide objective proof of this and be officially listed as a qualified Trust Service Provider (TSP), you must satisfy certain requirements which are stipulated in the eIDAS Regulation.

We support you on your way to qualification status: from the planning of your services, through the required checks to the conformity assessment (certification) or re-certification, we provide you with the complete eIDAS all-round package. Furthermore, we offer you made-to-measure workshops or make you an eIDAS.PROFESSIONAL within the framework of our specific training sessions.

An electronic signature or an electronic seal can be generated remotely without a smart card, for example, using a mobile terminal device such as a smartphone or tablet. This service can only be provided by a qualified Trust Service Provider in order to ensure a high degree of user security by means of the creation of the signature/seal.

The key material for signature/seal creation is contained in certified qualified signature or seal creation devices, which are abbreviated to QSCDs and operated by Trust Service Providers. The triggering of the remote signature / seal requires successful two-factor authentication, with the two factors stemming from two of the following three categories:

• knowledge, e.g. a password,
• possession, e.g. a smartphone to which a transaction code (one-time password) is sent,
• biometric features.

The corresponding means of authentication must be in the sole possession of the user.