Aadhaar e-Sign
India's authentication-linked electronic signature service in which the user's Aadhaar biometric or OTP authentication triggers the generation of a short-validity signing certificate by a licensed Certifying Authority, which is used to sign the document and then immediately discarded. Authorised under the Electronic Signature Rules 2015.
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ESIGN Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act)EU Trusted List (EUTL)Long-Term Validation (LTV)OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)QSCD (Qualified Signature Creation Device)Qualified Electronic Signature (QES)TSA timestamp (Timestamp Authority)X.509 certificate