These are the next steps to enroll for SwissSign Managed PKI:

1) Offering

Tell us the following information (contact) and we will be happy to give you an individual offer without obligation:

• Desired number of certificates?
• Intended use (encryption, signature, authentication)?
• Certificate type if already known (Silver, Gold, Platinum)?
• Desired degree of individualisation:

1. Use of an existing SwissSign certificate class (Silver, Gold, Platinum) in the standard version
2. Creation of a dedicated certification authority CA specifically for the customer at the level of an existing SwissSign certificate class (Issuing CA)
3. Use of the customer’s own PKI which is signed “only” by SwissSign (CA signing / root signing)

2) Contracts

We will make you a short offer based on the information under 1). If this interests you, we will send you the detailed contract documents. Depending on the selected managed PKI variant, these are some or all of the following:

• Commercial contract: contains the commercial agreements between SwissSign and the customer
• Service contract: contains the customer’s desired individual configuration for the managed PKI setup
• Certificate policies and certification practice statements CP/CPS: are the obligatory guidelines for the corresponding certificate class
• SwissSign CA Signing Requirements: specific technical and organisational requirements in the case of CA signing

3) Configuration of the customer setup

Sign the commercial contract first and send us back a copy. A SwissSign employee will then contact you so you can fill in the service contract together. The individual customer setup is then carried out on the SwissSign CA on the basis of this document. In the case of CA signing the procedure is different here. With CA signing SwissSign will contact you after receiving the countersigned commercial contract in order to agree on the further steps (visit to the customer at the customer’s location, audit of the PKI infrastructure and RA processes, CA signing ceremony) and appointments.

4) Handover of the administrator-rights

Handover of administrator access to set up the customer on the SwissSign CA. Here if desired the customer will also receive one or more administrator certificates to provide authentication to SwissSign.