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More Information on Time Stamping Services

As a recognized provider of certification services in accordance with the Swiss Electronic Signature Act or ZertES and pursuant to the international norm, ETSI TS 102.023, SwissSign is in a position to offer its customers qualified digital time stamps.

Such SwissSign time stamps can be used in workflow and archiving solutions across industries. SwissSign Time Stamps can be embedded everywhere that certified times for certain events must be assigned as part of solutions in compliance with regulatory works, such as SOX, Basel II, or a branch-specific quality framework, such as GMP, through independent, trustworthy third-parties.

Benefits
The integrity of a data set – whether this is in the form of a document in a random, machine-readable format or an identifiable transaction – is certified by SwissSign from the point in time of the time stamp with a corresponding hash value. This means that it can be proved simply and transparently that the integrity of the corresponding data set has remained intact since precisely the point in time of the time stamping. This is guaranteed by SwissSign.

Implementation and Technology
SwissSign Time Stamps can be requested and created in different ways depending on the concrete application:

  • When a large number of transactions or documents have to be stamped in a very short time often or all the time, the time stamping service is implemented locally in a suitable hardware security module (HSM) or a comparable device that is linked to the SwissSign time stamping root. This device acts as a dedicated remote SwissSign location exclusively for the customer – a tailored and scalable overall solution can be engineered and implemented with the help of SwissSign Consulting Services.
  • For the occasional use of time stamping when high throughput, performance and service scalability are of secondary importance, SwissSign time stamping services can be drawn directly from SwissSign via the Internet. For this, the customer only needs to have an Internet browser. There are various standardized price and billing models available for this type of service.

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