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a.sign seal qualified

a.sign seal qualified is a qualified electonic seal in accordance with the eIDAS regulation1

a.sign seal qualified is a remote signature, therefore the seal private key is stored in a hardware security module in the data center of A-Trust. For each signature the client software has to issue a request with the data to be signed to A-Trust. This request has to be signed with an authentication key.

To order an a.sign seal qualified you will need to generate a PKCS#10 request for an authentication certificate, that will later authenticate every signing request to the A-Trust servers.

This document describes the registration process and signature interface for the a.sign seal qualified.

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  1. Council of European Union: Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC, 2014. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/910/o ↩