WISeKey HIGH TRUST STANDARD CERTIFICATES

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WISeKey High Trust Standard Certificates associate the identity of a person with a digital identity. On one hand digital certificates can be viewed as Digital Passports that inform Internet users about their interlocutors' identity and ensure electronic messages confidentiality.

Those certificates integrate seamlessly with the majority of existing systems. They are user-friendly, each action being performed via Windows-like active icons.

Main functions

WISeKey Digital Certificates provide the capability for signing and deciphering of an electronic message. Contrary to PIN code, digital signature is considered the most legally robust electronic authentication method indicating:

• The integrity of the message,
• The identification of the originator and,
• Her/his expressed intention in it.

High Class Digital Certificates

WISeKey only authorizes high-class personal certificates delivered through a face-to-face identification process. That way, no doubt remains about the Internet user identity. This high level of security is required in order to ensure a common quality basis for digital certificates internationally and cross sector interoperability.

WISeKey recommends to directly generate High Trust Certificates in a physical device (smart card or USB token) ensuring that no copy can be made during the generation process of the digital certificate and subsequently, in posterior use.

This choice increases the level of security by reinforcing certified user identification and avoiding any fake of identity.

Main Applications

WISeKey High Trust Certificates owners can use their certificates with the following applications:

• Secure Email is the primary application, which can be used with the majority of email client software: it allows certified users to identify the message origin, to encrypt emails (content confidentiality) and to sign messages (integrity seal).
• Secure Web Access uses WISeKey digital certificates in order to regulate access to online Portals inner functionalities and to allocate privileges of services to certified users.
• E-Forms use certified users' private key to digitally sign Web-based Forms and to engage certified users legal responsibility.
• PKI Virtual Private Networks (VPN) use High Trust Certificates to establish, over Public Networks, secured point-to-point or single-to-multipoint connexions and after having checked certified users identities to grant them access or not to the Organisation's Intranet.

Need more information?

For further information about WISeKey Digital certificates or WISeKey PKI products, please fill out the on-line inquiry form, send us an email at deployment@wisekey.ch, or call us at 00 41 22 929 57 57.

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