It is a service ensuring a rapid checking of the validity for the electronic signatures.

The electronically signed documents are trusted only if the certificate used to create the signature is valid. In order to take benefit of an optimal security in the electronic communications, checking the validity of the digital certificates used for the signing of the documents you receive is compulsory.

The checking process consists of the interrogation of the revoked certificates lists (CRL – Certificate Revocation List) and it may take a lot of time. For you to have a rapid access to essential data on the identity of your correspondents, certSIGN makes available a service for the on-line checking of the certificates status.

Using certSAFE®OCSP, such checking is made automated in the very moment when you receive an electronically signed document. By this process, you find instantaneously which the certificate status was in the moment of signature creation ("valid", "revoked", "unknown").

The service offered by certSIGN® grounds on the OCSP protocol (Online Certificate Status Protocol), a last generation technology for the services associated to the digital certification using.

Besides the certificate status on-line checking service, certSIGN® helps you to implement this mechanism enabling it to answer to the security needs of your business (ex. checking the certificate status for a secured authentication of the clients for the Internet banking services or for other on-line resources that you offer) and provides the applications that you need in order to use the service.