Achieving CA operational excellence in Brasil

Easy and flexible process for the management of digital certificates

DigitalSign Certificadora Digital is
one of the top-level Certification
Authorities (CA) authorised to
operate in the Brasilian market
which uses AET’s solution BlueX
eID Management to issue and
manage digital certificates.
DigitalSign archieved operational
excellence by streamlining and
optimalising their business
process by going digital.
As a private entity, it is subordinated under the hierarchy of ICP-Brasil, DigitalSign
Certificadora Digital is responsible for the whole issuance process of digital
certificates. In Brasil, ICP-Brasil enables the issuance of digital certificates to
Brasilian citizens and business for digital identification purposes. The role of
top-level CA is to receive, validate, forward requests for issuance or revocation
of digital certificates and identification, in person, of its applicants towards
DigitalSign. Some examples of the use of ICP-Brasil digital certificates are: secure
access towards tax office websites and secure access to health care applications
for doctors.
The challenge: paper less process
DigitalSign aimed to have a complete paper less process which will increase the
security and speed of issuing digital certificates. Next to that, they wanted to apply
the lessons learned from the European market with regards to reduction of fraud.
The solution should be adjustable to the internal business processes and needed
to comply with highest security requirements, not only dictated by international
standards (e.g. like CWA 14167-1) but also demanded by ICP-Brasil. The certificate
life cycle solution should be integrated with own systems of DigitalSign, like the
e-commerce and invoicing system.

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 Controlled paperless process to issue digital certificates
DigitalSign Registration
systems Authorities
Request by Registration
Authority Officer
Request by citizens and
business (online)
Certificate lifecycle solution
DigitalSign Brasil uses standard software of ADSS in
combination with AET Europe’s solution BlueX eID
Management to issue digital certificates. The certificate life
cycle solution of AET was selected for several reasons: It is
very flexible and can easily accommodate the evolution of
the customer’s business need. The solution had to support
most of the smart card models used in Brasil with the
X-509 standard, the SafeSign middleware and other smart
card middleware. DigitalSign can now ensure continuous
compliance with legal requirements, which are fast changing
in Brasil.
BlueX is a workflow-based system which can integrate
within current and future organisational workflows to have a
fully managed and controlled paperless process off issuing
digital certificates. BlueX supports each stage of the lifecycle
of a digital certificate which can be divided into 4 main
processes: registration, validation, issuance/enrolment and
revocation.
Operational excellence and streamlined business
processes
As a result, DigitalSign achieved operational excellence by
streamlining and optimising their business processes by
going digital. With the solution of AET, DigitalSign reduced
the time spent by citizens at the offices to the minimum
period required for in-person ID validation. Citizens and
business in Brasil can now complete the registration process
at home (self-enrolment) by using the user-friendly interface
of SafeSign IC.
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ICP-Brasil
Validation Issurance of digital
officers certificate
Self-Enrollment
SafeSign is used for the issuance and management of Type
A1 (stored in software) and A3 (stored in hardware) Digital
Certificates.
DigitalSign reduced their costs of support, since the tight
sively subject to the stipulations of any applicable laws governing trademarks and rights of title of the respective registered owner.
integration of BlueX with SafeSign allowing to automate the
key generation and the process of downloading the digital
certificate. This reduces the risk of problems for end users,
especially by not having third-party dependencies (e.g.
Java), which frequently originate error situations like lack of
administration privileges or the usage of wrong versions. By
providing the exact same user interface/ experience across
multiple operating systems, documentation is simplified
and troubleshoot support and helpdesk procedures further
decreased the costs.
Fernando Moreira, CEO DigitalSign Certificadora Digital:
“As a Certification Authority in Brasil, we depend on our
systems to provide a reliable and care-free experience
to our end customers. AET designed an innovative and
customised solution for Brasil and was able to deliver it
on time, which gave us the technological supremacy on
the market.”
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