A Digital Signature Certificate is the digital equivalent of your hand written signature, issued by a Licensed Certifying Authority (CA) and are legally valid in India. It may include information like mobile number and PAN number in encrypted form. It is used for digitally signing documents online.

The term Digital Signature is commonly used to also refer to Digital Signature Certificates, but technically they are different. A digital signature can be an image representation of hand written signature or in some other digital format and have no legal validity. A digital signature certificate on the other hand, is a signature in digital format but issued by a Licensed Certifying Authority in India, after stringent validation of each applicant.

The different types are
1) Class 1 (used for email signatures)
2) Class 2 (discontinued)
3) Class 3 (used for MCA21/Income Tax e-filing, GST, EPFO, CERSAI 2.0, e-tenders/e-procurement, etc.,)
4) DGFT (a special Class 2 digital signature for Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT))

A Certifying Authority (CA) issues digital signature certificates to an applicant after due validation. CAs are issued licenses by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.

All digital signature certificates bought through us, are issued by Sify SafeScrypt CA – India’s 1st & Largest Certifying Authority (A NASDAQ listed group).

easydsc.com is a Licensed Registering Authority (LRA) of Sify SafeScrypt CA.

A USB Token is a highly secure hardware USB Crypto device (with FIPS 140-2 level rating or higher), used to store a digital signature.

Yes. USB tokens with CSP version 2.0 is now mandatory for downloading the digital certificate.

No. PAN is not mandatory for getting a digital signature. However, in order to use the same for Income Tax e-filing, PAN details need to be added in the DSC. Therefore it is always recommended to use the Pan details as well.

Paperless DSC is the process of applying for DSC using either your Aadhaar card or your PAN card and for Organisations using GST. This is currently applicable for both individual certificates and organisation DSC and the whole process is online, and no physical documents are required.

Digital signature is issued based on validation of applicant using Aadhaar offline e-kyc process (paperless).

Digital signature is issued based on validation of applicant using his/her PAN credentials (paperless)

No physical documents are required as it is fully online process.

Digital signature certificates can be ready same day (working hours), provided the applicant completes all verification steps, including video recording.

Yes. Currently we do provide free shipping anywhere in India for customers with a minimum spent of INR 500/- in a single order. This may change in future.

As per current guidelines, the process of renewal is the same as that of getting a new one.