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INTRODUCTION

Digital Signature Certificate or DSC is the certificate which is used in various


digital documents signing process and for storing data or documents in a digital
form. Government is valuing DSC for its numerous benefits. DSC is the most
authentic and secures way for to submit or store data. DSC is also legally
admissible in court of law as an evidence. DSC provides a multi-level cyber
security for the confidential data which cannot be achieved in the physical storage
of data. Perhaps DSC can also be referred as calculation of mathematical algorithm
which is encrypted in the form of hash values that store the essential information
resembling the physical paper’s information. Few significant examples of DSC are
drivers’ licenses, membership cards or passports.

PROVISIONS
Allocations for DSC are provided under Information Technology Act, 2000 in
other words signatures which are authorized by the IT Act are identical to
handwritten signatures and vice-versa. The foremost objective of IT Act 2000 was
to promote the utilization of DSC for e-commerce and e-governance. As
mentioned above DSC was initially introduced in 2000 under Sec.2 (1) in spite of
that, it was changed in 2008 to Electronic Signatures and thereafter in 2016 to E-
sign online signature or E-Hastakshar. The division is done only for the purpose
none other than sake of clarity or else digital system under Phase 1 i.e. 2000 would
have been continued.

CLASSIFICATION
Depending upon the applicability and assurance level of DSC there are three kind
of DSC:

Class 1: Class 1 DSC are issued to individual or private subscribers. Significant


information carried by class 1 DSC is Name and Email ID. This class provides a
basic standard of assurance, however, there are consequences and risks of data
compromise, but they are not considered to be a crucial synonym.
Class 2: Class 2 DSC are issued to the authorized signatories who have signing
authorities which includes CEO and Directors i.e. business personnel and private
individuals too Class 2 DSC can be utilized them for Income Tax Return(ITR ,
GST Return(GSTR , and further government e-forms. Thus, this may include
proceedings having substantial monetary risk, value or fraud.

Class 3: Class 3 DSC is issued to the certifying authorities to entities or a person


who wants to participate in online tenders and e-auctions. Certifying authorities
may be individuals as well as authorities. Moreover, this includes very high value
transactions or high values of fraud risk.

MERITS
Conserves Cost And Time: When there was no DSC documents were required to
be signed b all the officials and recipients of the agreement or official agreement
but because of DSC authentication of the documents is very fast and easy without
spending any unnecessary expenses. Therefore, using DSC procedure time and
cost both are saved along with work is completed in a sooth manner.

Simple and Faster Payment: One can sign a contract and close documents or even
can endure faster closure of a sale through DSC. Moreover, any kind of
documents can be streamlined very easily with the help of DSC.

Magnified Security: DSC is better than signing the documents physically as when
it comes to protect the documents from frauds DSC provides encryption
which protects the documents from getting used wrongly or being tampered.

Customer Service Intensified: A lot of the businesses are conducted online through
smartphones, therefore, most of the customers expect online and instant
services where DSC is one of the very simple procedure as well as helps in
sustaining customer’s loyalty.

OBTAIN DSC
DSC can be obtained by directly approaching Certifying
Authorities. These authorities are licensed by the
MCA(Ministry of Corporate Affairs) to provide DSC to
applicants, under Section 24 of Indian IT-Act 2000. The
applicants can apply with original supporting documents and
self-recognized copies like address proofs. An individual can
also opt for PAN-based and Adhaar online application. After
the submission of required fess the applicant need to verify
an e-KYC which is done by submitting a pre-recorded video
to certifying authority. After the completion of this process a
DSC is generated electronically. An encrypted pen drive is
also received by the applicant. Even so, Company
Representatives and Professionals are not required to submit
any fees while obtaining DSC from Certifying Authorities.
Nevertheless, payment method for other applicants must be
Demand Draft or Cheque.

HOW DOES DSC WORK?


As physical signatures are unique to each signer, similarly DSC
are unique to each other. DSC providers i.e., Certifying Authorities
follow a specific arrangement called Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI). PKI avails the provider to obtain two long numbers using a
mathematical algorithm, which are known as keys from which one
is a private key and another one is a public key. Whenever a
person signs a document using DSC, signature is established
using the private key which is securely owned by the signer.
However, mathematical algorithm creates a hash, by creating
data which matches with the signed document and this data is
then encrypted. Thus, this encrypted form of data is called DSC.
For security purposes the time at which the document was signed
is also marked within the DSC, DSC is invalidated if signed
document is changed. Therefore, for the safety of the DSC, Public
Key Infrastructure (PKI) requires that the private key and public
key should be created, conducted and saved in a safe manner
which often requires a reliable Certifying Authority.

CONCLUSION
Therefore, DSC has become one of the greatest technologies in today’s modern
world of technology and use of DSC in place of the traditional signatures has
expanded over the time on a large scale. Information Technology Act of 2000
covers a wide range of topics of DSC, including definition of DSC, types of DSC,
authority estimated with awarding DSC. One of the biggest merits available in
DSC is that it is admissible DSC is special for its electronic medium and encrypted
form which makes it more authentic and provides convenience, protection and
efficiency from third-party interference. However, DSC provides a strong evidence
or proof that the invoice was initially generated and was authenticated by the
sender, moreover; the information was not changes all through the route.
Nowadays, in India Class 2 DSC is not renewed or issued, whereas Class 3 DSC
which provides a very high security is issued to applicants

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