Why Ascertia?
There are very good reasons for choosing Ascertia digital signature products for email security projects and these include:
- Drop in MTA Server
Ascertia provided a server-side solution with no changes required within end-user’s email clients. ADSS Secure Email Server (SES) is a drop in MTA Server capable of filtering emails based on configured “matcher” policy, and then processing the filtered emails based on configrued “mailet”. Emails and or attachments can be automatically signed, verified and/or archived.
- Apply electronic (digital) signatures to any type of document
Ascertia’s products offer the widest support for digital signature formats and standards and the greatest flexibility in how to implement these. The products support PDF, PDF/A, XML, PKCS#7, CMS, S/MIME and PKCS#1 signatures as required to sign business documents. German and other country qualified certificates can be used to provide advanced electronic signatures.
- Verify existing electronic (digital) signatures to any type of document
Ascertia has the widest support for verification of digital signature formats as mentioned above. It also provides enhanced OASIS DSS-X Verification Reports and PEPPOL based quality ratings for signatures and associated certificates. All of this evidential information can be stored as meta data with the data objects being archived for later use.
- Long-term signatures
Ascertia is a clear leader in creating long-term signatures - these can be verified many years in the future, an essential requirement for most government related data. ADSS Server supports all the ETSI XAdES and CAdES as well as latest PAdES (PDF format) profiles.
- High Performance, Scalability & Security
ADSS Server can be run in load-balanced configuration to sign millions of emails or documents in automated manner. All signature operations can be conducted in a secure Hardware Security Module (HSM) and multiple HSMs can be connected for performance and resilience purposes. All signing operations are securely logged in ADSS Server database.
- More than just digital or electronic signatures
Digital signature creation is only one part of the solution - there are also requirements for signature verification, trust anchor management, key management, certification, real-time certificate validation, time-stamping and secure long-term archiving. ADSS Server is unique in being able to address all these requirements in one multi-function server. All these services are based on leading industry standards including OASIS DSS & DSS/X (signing, verification and encryption), RFC3161 (timestamping), IETF LTANS (archiving), RFC2560 (OCSP validation), RFC5055 (SCVP validation), W3C XKMS (validation), etc.