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What Is Digital Signature Certificate?

Digital Signature Certificate is an electronic way to sign the documents. It is a secure digital key by which the holder of the DSC certifies the validation of the documents. In the modern world when everything is in electronic form the technology modifies the way to certify the document, earlier the people use their physical signature or thumb impression to sign and certify the document, but after this technology came the way of signing the documents has changed, now the people can sign their documents electronically. There are many government forms in which only digital signatures are required that means nobody can sign that forms physically or by their thumb impression. The Digital Signature Certificate contains all the relevant information of the person like his name, date of birth, PAN number, email id, phone number, address with pin code. The signature through DSC is equivalent to the physical signing and thumb impression.

The Digital Signature Certificate has its legal validity under the Information Technology Act, 2000. The entire government department accepts this signature for validation. Nowadays digital signature is required everywhere like registering company whether it is Private limited company or One person company or section-8 company, etc. It is not only required to register the business but also required to file GST return, Income-tax return in case of a company, etc. and also use to register the brand name. It is also used for e-commerce, and to take government tender, etc. there are many usages of DSC because now everything is digitized and a digital signature is required to sign documents.