E-sign services
For creating electronic signatures, the signer is required to obtain a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) from a Certifying Authority (CA) licensed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. Before a CA issues a DSC, the identity and address of the signer must be verified. The private key used for creating the electronic signature is stored in hardware cryptographic token which is secured with a password/pin. This current scheme of in-person physical presence, paper document based identity & address verification and issuance of hardware cryptographic tokens does not scale to a billion+ people. For offering fully paperless citizen services, mass adoption of digital signature is necessary.
To address these concerns, Govt. of India through the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has launched a simple to use online service which allows everyone to have the ability to digitally sign electronic documents.
What is eSign?
eSign facilitates digitally signing a document by an Aadhaar holder using an Online Service. eSign is designed for applying Digital Signature using authentication of signer through Aadhaar e-KYC service. This is an integrated service which facilitates issuing a Digital Signature Certificate and performing signing of requested data by authenticating the Aadhaar holder. Aadhaar is mandatory for availing the eSign Service.
What are the expected benefits of eSign?
Easy and secure way to digitally sign information anywhere, anytime – eSign is an online service that offers application service providers the functionality to authenticate signers and perform the digital signing of documents using Aadhaar e-KYC service. Hardware tokens are not required to be used.
Facilitates legally valid signatures – eSign process involves consumer consent, Digital Signature Certificate generation, Digital Signature creation & affixing and Digital Signature Certificate acceptance in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. It enforces compliance, through API specification and licensing model of APIs. Comprehensive digital audit trail – in-built to confirm the validity of transactions is also preserved.
Flexible and easy to implement – eSign provides configurable authentication options in line with Aadhaar e-KYC service and also records the Aadhaar number that is used to verify the identity of the signer. The authentication options for eKYC include biometric (fingerprint or iris scan) or OTP (through the registered mobile in the Aadhaar database). eSign enables millions of Aadhaar holders easy access to legally valid Digital Signature service.
Respecting privacy – eSign ensures the privacy of the signer by requiring that only the thumbprint (hash) of the document be submitted for signature function instead of the whole document.
Secure online service – The eSign Service is governed by e-authentication guidelines. While authentication of the signer is carried out using Aadhaar e-KYC services, the signature on the document is carried out on a backend server of the e-Sign provider. eSign services are offered by trusted third party service provider, currently Certifying Authorities (CA) licensed under the IT Act. To enhance security and prevent misuse, Aadhaar holders private keys are created on Hardware Security Module (HSM) and destroyed.
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To know more about eSign, please visit the CCA website.
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WITH REF GRIVEANCE PMOPG/E/2015/0038487, 18/08/2015 PMOPG/E/2015/0067504. SIR BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT DIGITAL INDIA WE SHOULD STOP THIS KIND OF ACTIVITIES FROM INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. OPENALY THEY ARE CHEATING THE CUSTOMER. SUCH KIND OF THINGS STOP USING THE INTERNET. THEN HOW WE CAN TALK ABOUT DIGITAL INDIA? FIRSTLY WE SHOULD HAVE A THAT KIND OF ENVIROMENT A PERSON CAN USE INTERNET WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM FROM ISP. OUR ISP CHEAT THE CUSTOMER. SO, OUR BASE SHOULD BE STRONG.still there is nosolution
By doing so a person should have to spend time & energy for his certificates, Government gets accurate details of population , educations level of citizen, ( fraud can be controlled easily every where ) What is the financial conditions , who are really poor And who are rich ,No need to spend crores on population counting and similar other process, good taxation module can be designed with minimum and single tax. All fraud will come down in every sector And in hand having transparent info
dear sir I respect good initiatives from the PM
Think First of all Each person should have a unique identification.( adhar was a good Move towards that ) But I think there also some loops are there , But any how a started process can be corrected easily,
Once a child born and it should be allotted with such unique number for his life time.Then after all the activities are linked to that number.starting from educations,business,profession,financial transactions. etc.
We don’t want licenses for apps like Whatsapp,Facebook,etc
No net neutrality
sir, i think, like aashar card we student need student E id card, so that all the information according to the student like academic, signature, photo etc.will be access at once.only id number should be needed to fill any exam form.
It consumes a lot of time to fill the form, and sometimes due to bad server we fill all the detail again and again. so it will release the server load too. thank u sir
@ issue related to online retailing,These cash accounts maintained by online retailers like paytm wallet are working like currency only. So it can be a reason for blackmoney generation even after all transactions though banks. example- a service provider doesn’t want to tax his income. He can ask client to pay him in his online cash a/c maintained by online retail company(ex.-paytm wallet)though bank. Its not traceable as its personal expenses of his client and it is not disclosed anywhere
As per my previous opinion for online retailing, I would like to suggest that they should show cash refund on bill also. Should directly transfer to bank a/c only as by doing so somewhere they are working as bank only.
If a person buy a laptop from online retailer and he got cash back 5000 in his online cash ac maintened by online vendor only out of purchase of 45000 that is bill amount. Here my actual expense is 40000(45000-5000) but I can easily show value of assets(laptop) as 45000 as on bill ,credit amount(5000) is not mentioned. And in bank ,outflow to vendor is 45000. By doing so, person can show higher value for assets and even claim higher depreciation on assets.
I had uploaded my documents in digital locker. I tried to e-sign it, but every time it gives the msg that not able to esign, and try later. I had downloaded latest ver of adobe rdr suggested in the faq section of the site. Pl help.
Dear PM,
We are using bio-metric (Aadhar) for every Indian.
I suggest you that, why do you implement the same for foreigner who wish to visit to India while Visa Issue time. Because, Pakistan, Kenya, Labia people are not returning to their mother countries and they are involving in drug and mafia business in India. So that, if we have enough bio-metric data, govt can kick out them who really burden to us.