identification : Keynectis, certification services provider: digital transactions and signatures, access control.

Digital certification service providers to obtain a French qualification to issue qualified certificates, smart cards and USB keys. The certificates and associated private keys delivered by a digital certification service provider are by default stored on the hard disk of the user's workstation, in that case, they are called software certificates. They can also be stored, as well as the associated private keys, in individual physical storage media such as USB keys or smart cards, the characteristic features linked to the use of such individual media are the following.

- Tamper resistance, a user's private key cannot be ''exported'' from its storage medium when the latter has generated it.
This characteristic feature guarantees that its duplication, as well as its use by a non-authorized person, is impossible, - Portability, the storage of a key pair and of its associated certificate in the cryptographic chip set allows them to be used on different workstations, this simply by inserting the physical medium in the considered workstation's drive. Certification services operator providing : digital certificates (pki, smartcard, digital signatures) to secure interchanges, access control, data integrity, confidential transactions. There is therefore no need for any file handling, - Security.

intranet access control

In order to be able to use someone else's certificate, one should not only spirit away that person's physical medium, but also know the associated confidential code PIN code, the security level is therefore similar to that of a credit card. - Organisation and marketing, when using a smart card, it is possible to graphically customize it by printing your company's logo as well as various items of information such as the first name and surname or even the photograph of the users. identification Digital time stamping, the dematerialization of transactions is easy to implement and provides gains in time and money, but it requires new elements of evidence and in particular time-related elements - in order to perpetuate these transactions. KEYNECTIS proposes a digital data time stamping service whose main purpose is to ''stamp'' any document or fact requiring proof of the date and time of the transaction to be preserved, the time stamping ''stamp'', also called ''time stamping token*'' can be used as an element of evidence following the same principle as that of the ''postmark''.