První certifikační autorita, a.s. (I.CA) is an accredited provider of certification services according to the Law No 215/2002 Z.z. on Electronic Signature, signed on July 1, 2016 and has become a qualified provider of trusted services in accordance with the European Parliament and Council regulation on electronic identity ad trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market No. 910/2014 (for short eIDAS).

Besides certification services it also provides electronic time stamps according to eIDAS. Time stamps are used especially when there is a need to demonstrate the existence of electronic documents and data in given time. In reality this includes various systems using electronic communication, such as electronic invoicing, e-shops, electronic registry, electronic banking, etc.

Time authority services, electronic time stamps, archival time stamps and archive time TSA services can be adjusted to needs of a client.

Time stamps can be used also for archiving electronic documents and for record services; here is the electronic time stamp inevitable for retroactive verification of electronic signature of the document after the signature certificate has run out of validity.

Ditec solution will be part of this presentation – a module of long-term archiving (MDA), designed to secure long-term verification of electronically signed documents.