• International organizations need robust solutions to use different (third party issued) digital signatures and certificates to conduct their international e-business. They need to handle the complexity of verifying different kinds of signatures and to validate certificates from various issuers worldwide. The complexity is experienced especially at the receiving part of the e-business transactions.
• The validation service represents an elegant solution of the complexity problem by offering signature verification and certificate validation as a service for the receiving party. Customer organizations obtain a policy based solution to manage different signatures and certificates worldwide.
• Effective use of digital signatures, across frontiers, by reducing costs and complexity of using PKI in global e-business. The service also effectively helps to connect different closed electronic ID communities.
• The receivers of digital signatures and certificates will get an “one stop shopping” partner, offering:
- a single, independent trust anchor
- one agreement for processing of signatures and certificates
- one single software integration
- effective risk management in using PKI for global e-business
