Press & News
December 12, 2007
Federal Network Agency approves time stamp service with new RSA 2048 key lengths in accordance with the signature law
First customers are using AuthentiDate’s accredited time stamp service for re-signing
Duesseldorf – AuthentiDate International AG accredited certification service provider by the Federal Network Agency, has already gone into service with time stamps with RSA 2048 key length.
AuthentiDate International AG is one of the first companies that are able to generate qualified time stamps according to the new signature law regulations. The time stamps are generated with the new RSA 2048 key lengths. The latter is mandatory for law conformable solutions.
The time stamps can also be used to re-sign already signed data. This way the legal certainty of already signed data remains after December, 31st 2007.
Moreover, AuthentiDate offers the so called “Re-Sign-Express” which is an easy possibility to re-sign data, for those who have to re-sign their data on short notice, by the end of the year. The Re-Sign-Express works independently on all existing IT-infrastructure, database and file systems. Any form of electronic data can get re-signed in accordance with the law regulations.
To be able to re-sign data, the latter will be centralized on an external hard drive and afterwards signed with the new key-lengths by AuthentiDate.
Please notice: It is not possible to re-sign any signed data after December, 31st 2007. To make sure that the signed data is in accordance with the current law it has to be re-signed by the end of the year.
In 2001, the AuthentiDate´s Trust Center was accredited - in accordance with the strict regulations of the German signature law of the Federal Network Agency - and since then has, continuously, been operating.
National and international customers have been using AuthentiDate products and services to optimize their business processes, since then.
The solution will be presented at the Enterprise-Signature-Day
Feb. 21, 2008 - Duesseldorf, Germany
For registration: www.enterprise-signature-day.com
About Authentidate International AG
Authentidate International AG in Düsseldorf, Germany, develops and provides independent business-process solutions enabling customers to simply and quickly integrate digital signatures and time stamps into existing corporate processes. The unique set of solutions can be used for almost any business process (i.e. billing, workflow, archiving, scanning and e-mail communication) to significantly reduce costs and optimize processing immediately.
Many high-profile companies in various industries and governmental organizations have used Authentidate’s digital signature solutions for years in Germany, Europe and other countries to substitute paper processing with legally binding, electronic business processes in accordance with international and local legal environments.
For the first time, professional signature solutions are available either as boxed products, web services or individual solutions, based on a common, flexible and modular architecture. The elements of the unique offering, available from Authentidate may be used independently or in combination with other solutions. Today, many software vendors have already integrated Authentidate’s signature products into their standard offerings. Therefore any organization now may easily benefit from automatic digital signatures processing.
In addition, Authentidate offers governmentally certified trust center services in accordance with the German Signature Act and the EU Signature Directive. Authentidate International AG was accredited by the German Federal Network Agency in November of 2001 and operates a trust center especially for time stamp services.
AuthentiDate International AG
Großenbaumer Weg 6
40472 Düsseldorf
Fon +49 (0)211 43 69 89-50
Fax +49 (0)211 43 69 89-19
Judith Balfanz
VP Marketing
Email presse(at)authentidate.de
www.authentidate.de
