Overview

e-Procurement facilitates, integrates, and streamlines procurement processes. From buyer to supplier and even back. Approved under the Information Technology Act, and with legal status, a Digital Signature Certificate is essential for all e-Procurement processes.

Applying for a government tender online has many advantages. Since documents are uploaded to a central site, acknowledgements and receipts are provided immediately. Which is not the case with paper documents that need to be scanned and verified before being processed.

e-Procurement has gained significant popularity and acceptance as it brings greater transparency to the whole system. Among other benefits, it helps buyers and bidders overcome geographical limitations, reduce procurement cycles, and overall helps keep pace with present technology.

Any organisation that is looking to apply for any Government eTender needs to have a Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate registered in the name of a representative who is authorised to submit online offers for e-Tendering applications.

Need for Digital Signature Certificate

A Digital Signature Certificate authenticates your identity electronically. It also provides you with a high level of security for your online transactions by ensuring absolute privacy of the information exchanged using a digital certificate. You can use certificates to encrypt information such that only the intended recipient can read it. You can digitally sign information to assure the recipient that it has not been changed in transit, and also verify your identity as the sender of the message.

Where can I use Digital Signature Certificates?

You can use Digital Signature Certificates for the following:

For secure email and web-based transactions, or to identify other participants of web-based transactions.

To prove ownership of a domain name and establish SSL/ TLS encrypted secured sessions between your website and the user for web based transactions.

As a developer, for proving authorship of a code and retaining integrity of the distributed software programs.

For signing web forms, e-tendering documents, filing income tax returns, to access membership-based websites automatically without entering a user name and password etc.

Servzone is a Certifying Authority licensed by Controller of Certifying Authorities, under Government of India. Servzone operates under the guidelines set by Information Technology Act. With more than one million certificates issued, Servzonecaters to all kinds of subscribers who use Digital Certificates for Income Tax, MCA (ROC), Tenders, Foreign Trade, Banking, Railways and many other needs.

Relying Parties

Servzone certificates can be used and relied in any online or offline applications. The organization (or Individual) using such application is termed as Relying Party. The application can be an online application hosted on a web server, or offline desktop application, or third party applications like Adobe PDF reader, etc. All such applications are expected to make necessary CRL / OCSP check, in addition to validating the trust chain, the expiry and the subject details of the certificate.

All Relying parties are bound by Relying Party Terms & Conditions, as defined in Servzone Certification Practice Statement. It is recommended that, all Relying Parties shall register with Servzoneby providing the organization details along with Administrative and Technical person contact information.

Using Digital Certificates

• E-Tender
• MCA (ROC)
• Income Tax
• GST Filing
• Employee Provident Fund
• DGFT for foreign trade

• Paperless Digital Signature
• E-Ticketing (IRCTC)
• IPR (Trademark & Patent)
• ICEGATE
• Foreign National DSC
• DSC for CBSE School

Types of Certificates

• Signature Certificates
• Encryption Certificates
• Document Signer Certificates
• SSL Certificates

Class of Certificates

• Class 1 Certificates
• Class 2 Certificates
• Class 3 Certificates

Services

• eSign Subscription
• eSign ASP Services
• Time Stamping Services

Signature Certificate

The signature certificate is corresponding to the signing private key. It will be used by individuals or organizations for signing purpose. The key pair will be generated by applicant/subscriber in a secure medium and is inherent to keep his private key in safe custody. The signature certificate is issued by e-Mudhra after the validation process mentioned in the CPS. The relying parties can make use of this certificate for signature verification

Encryption Certificate

The encryption key pair is used by the subscriber for receiving encrypted messages which is encrypted using subscriber’s public key. The subscriber fills in the application and submits to Servzoneor it’s authorized RAs along with the identification and address proof. The RA verifies the application, id proof and address proof and approves the request. The Subscriber provides a password in the portal for protecting the encryption certificate. The server generates the encryption key, escrows and makes it available for the customer in the portal. The subscriber needs to login with the credentials sent to his digital id and download the encryption certificate from the portal.

SSL Server Certificate

SSL server certificates are digital identifications containing information about web server and the organization that is owning the server’s web content. An SSL server certificate enables users to authenticate the server, check the validity of web content, and establish a secure connection. Know More »

Document Signer Certificate

The Document Signer Certificates are issued to organizational software applications for operating automatically to authenticate documents/information attributed to the organization by using Digital Signature applied on the document, documents / Information.