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

French Law acknowledges that the digital signature has the same value and same evidence weight as the handwritten signature, since 2000, practical applications of the digital signature have mushroomed, among which. - Dematerialization of internal memos, of procurement requests,- Online vote of shareholders at General Assemblies,- Professional elections,- Commercial contracts,- Dematerialization of government contract procedures,- Digital invoice, under French Law, digital signature exists in three forms. - The so-called ''simple'' Digital Signature, it consists in a reliable identification process that guarantees its link with the document to which it is attached,- The Secured Digital Signature.

It is a digital signature that meets a number of requirements, - The Digital Signature benefiting from a presumption of reliability.
It is a secured digital signature that meets some extra requirements, meaning that in case of dispute on the value of the established signature, the burden of proof of non-validity lies on the person disputing this validity, and not on the signer, due to our involvement on digital signature and namely on its implementation, KEYNECTIS is in a position to suggest a solution adapted to your needs, more precisely, KEYNECTIS has participated in the studies concerning the implementation of the presumption of reliability and of compliance of practices and stands ready to be among the first if not the first. 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. Certification services operator providing : digital certificates (pki, smartcard, digital signatures) to secure interchanges, access control, data integrity, confidential transactions. - Tamper resistance, a user's private key cannot be ''exported'' from its storage medium when the latter has generated it. trust services operator 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, there is therefore no need for any file handling. trust services operator - Security, 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, digital time stamping.

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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. trust services operator 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'', within the framework of this service, KEYNECTIS places at your disposal a time stamping platform, available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and linked to your application.