Seal Card
Digital Company Stamp and Official Seal
The seal card is used to generate the qualified electronic seal. Legally secure and with high evidentiary value according to eIDAS, it ensures the origin and integrity of electronic documents and proves that they originate from a specific legal entity.
Your advantages at a glance
- Legally secure – standard-compliant and legally permissible administrative processes
- Trustworthy – proof of origin and integrity of documents
- Effective – no media breaks in electronic business processes
- Certified according to eIDAS – Europe-wide guarantee of highest data security
Product details
The Qualified Seal with the Seal Card
The seal card is used to generate the qualified electronic seal. Legally secure and with high evidentiary value according to eIDAS, it ensures the origin and integrity of electronic documents and proves that they originate from a specific legal entity.
D-Trust offers the seal card in two versions:
The D-Trust Card Standard seal is used when documents are to be digitally sealed individually. The standard card is used directly at the workstation. A card reader and suitable software are required.
If you want to seal many documents quickly and digitally, use the D-Trust Card Multi seal. The D-Trust Card Multi seal enables automated sealing processes with up to 21,000 seals per hour.
The Qualified Seal in the Application
The qualified electronic seal replaces the company stamp or the official seal and is particularly suitable for issuing in mass applications. For example, this includes notarisations, certificates or electronic notifications. However, it is also used for securing integration and preserving the value of evidence in the area of substitute scanning for electronic archives or incoming mail.
For some processes, a qualified electronic seal is required by law, such as in e-tendering or for substitute scanning in accordance with “Technical Guideline 03138 Substitute Scanning” (TR RESISCAN) of the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI). The qualified seal is also required when registering companies in the European Product Database for Energy Labelling (EPREL database).
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Frequently Asked Questions
An electronic seal corresponds to a digital stamp. When data is transmitted electronically, the sender is identified beyond a doubt (authenticity), and the original state of the transported data is guaranteed (integrity). The electronic seal must not be confused with encryption of a document. The content of the sealed file remains readable by everyone regardless of the seal. The seal is suitable for protection from tampering when sending electronic documents. It complements the qualified electronic signature, which replaces a manual signature in the digital space.
Digital seals replace a company stamp or an official seal. They are suitable for documents such as certificates, deeds or notices. Electronic seals can also be used for quotations and electronic invoices. Digitising incoming mail or scanning archival material often requires the use of electronic seals.
With regard to public authorities, electronic seals are usually applied for and used by agencies with a seal. In corporate use, an authorised signatory must submit the application for an electronic seal. The affiliation of the applicants to the respective organisation is verified by the trust service provider before the certificate is issued. The verification always needs to be renewed after the certificate period elapses.
The qualified electronic seal is generated with a seal card. Recipients of documents sealed in this way can verify the certificate data using third-party programs, such as PDF readers, by distributing the root certificate via the EU Trusted List (EUTL). Unlike the seal card, the Qualified Seal ID works without a card reader, in other words, without any hardware or middleware.
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