The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) issued the update on the Class 2 Digital Signature Certificate (DSC’s) issuance, which will be withdrawn, and only Class 3 DSC will be issued from 1st January 2021.
Under the Information Technology Act, Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) are being issued by Certifying Authorities (CA) on successful verification of the identity and addresses credentials of the applicant.
The guidelines issued by the Controller of Certifying Authorities are to be strictly followed by CAs.
The CAA directed the CAs to follow the detailed guidelines in relation to eKYC Account, DSC Application Form, Mandatory Information in the DSC application Form, Physical verification/Video verification, Documents verification, Key pair generation/Storage, Invoice/Acknowledgement, Subscriber Agreement, DSC Issuance, Role of Trusted person, Special purpose certificates, Encryption Certificate, First factor Authentication, Second factor Authentication, SMS-OTP, etc.
The Authority issues guidelines for maintaining e-KYC account by CA which includes Authentication for eKYC Account, Aadhaar offline eKYC, Organisational KYC for Organisational Person Certificates, Verification of Authorised Signatory, Banking eKYC for Banking Customers, PAN eKYC for Personal Certificates, and eKYC for foreign applicants.
The CAA issued guidelines for issuance of Special purpose DSCs which include SSL Certificates, and Document Signer Certificate.
The guidelines prescribed for various annexures namely Supporting documents for organization verification, Terms and conditions for use of HSM for class 3 Organisational Person DSCs, GST registration Verification, Document proof as Identity and address, the criteria for the eligibility of government organization and its authorized signatory and Video Verification.
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