Time Stamp

Application

Time Stamp service is used to mark a certified date without the necessity to produce legal consequences in terms of the Civil Code. This service facilitates marking electronic documents, electronic signatures, electronic transactions, etc. with a reliable time. The time with which a document is signed is not connected to the system time (of a workstation, or a server) but it comes from a source - a Trusted Third Party. Time Stamp service is most often used when electronic signatures are affixed with the use of private certificates.

The service has been devised for:

• business clients
• public administration
• individual clients

Time Stamp can be used to mark:

• internal electronic documents, to protect them against falsification and backdating
• applications and petitions sent in an electronic form to public administration offices
• contracts sent in an electronic form to banks, insurance companies and partnership companies
• electronic documents stored in a personal computer, to protect them against falsification and backdating
• computer programs, to protect them against falsification and virus infections
• system logs, to protect them against falsification
• e-Invoices sent to recipients in the electronic form
• ensures e-document evidence value conservation

Benefits

• certainty of a date
• certainty that documents were drawn up at a certain time
• secure Internet trade
• protection of computer software against forgery and virus infections
• guaranteed authenticity of electronic documents
• guarantee that documents have been created at a given time
• guaranteed authenticity of computer programs

Technical requirements

In order to use the Time Stamp, it is necessary to have an application generating an SHA1 summary of a document which is to be marked with time.

Time Stamp service is available as:

• standard Time Stamp
• standard Time Stamp for code signing (Authenticode)
• qualified Time Stamp (qualified Time Stamp is a method of dating electronic documents and signatures which in terms of the Civil Code produces legal consequences of a certified date)

For detailed information please contact us.