A qualified electronic signature is an electronic signature, which a certificate ("public key") of a reliable certification service uses.

By a certificate thereby an electronic certificate is to be understood, with which a signature test code can be confirmed to a person be assigned and the identity of this person (see "§ 2 No. 6 dt. signature law). With the electronic signature the certificate contains the public key, with which the authenticity of the signature is examined. To the details see electronic signature.

For the qualified electronic signature the certification offerer must keep "§"§ the 4 to 14 after German right dt. signature law. In addition the certificate must have legally prescribed minimum contents ("§ 7 dt. signature law). Sense of these regulations is in particular to guarantee the identity of the certificate owner and to ensure the safe keeping and availability of the certificate. The certificate serves the identification of a person and must be therefore kept surely so that it cannot be inadmissibly changed. The statement, who requests a certificate, must be met over a safe procedure. Such a procedure is for example Postident, with which one must present its identity card in a postal service place, if one sets the request to a certificate. Only so one can be safe, a certificate belongs to whom.

With a reliable certification body it is thus ensured that a certificate really belongs to a certain person. And only with the help of the certificate it can be determined whether an electronic signature really comes from a certain person.

The qualified electronic signature is qualified thus "", because it develops on a safe (regarding the identification of the owner) certificate.

The replacement of writing (personal signature on a durable article) by an electronic signature is possible only in case of the qualified electronic signature. If one wants to sign thus electronically, one must announce oneself at one of the suitable certification services (whereby costs to develop). So that the safety requirements are fulfilled with the procedure of signing, usually also the acquisition of a certain map reader is necessary.

Offerer

For a qualified electronic signature suitable offerers are for example:

Germany

TC TrustCenter see also: , T-system see: (T-Telesec), DATEV (e: secure) see:

Deutsche Bank see: (railways SignaturCard) - only reduced qualifies,

the savings banks banking syndicate (S-TRUST signature map) - only indicated offerer.

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