Identification

		INFO & KNOWLEGDE

Authentication of other persons

Usually you need a "identy card" for authenticating yourself to other unknown persons. A photo identification contains additionally (thereby) biometric data. Comparing photo and person you trust, that the issuer of the identy card has merged this data correctly.

		OPINION

	Do you trust an identity card or do you trust a post-it with a name on it?
	Do you trust a certificate or do you trust a password?
	Do you trust a simple student ID or do you trust a passport with actual security/tamperproof techniques?
	Do you trust a hard disk or a smart card?

		PRACTICE

Communication by electronic means is needing also a credential - an 'identitiy card'. Certificates are the right instrument for this requirements. But consider how big is your trust into the Issuer and which certificate is being 'shown'.

Cryptoshop.com is showing, how you can identify your business partner, customers and employees in e-mails, forms, documents in a secure manner respectively how you can identify yourself to them in a secure way.

Solutions for a secure identification

Document The origin of electronic documents can be ascertained uniquely by digital signatures - there is no repudiation possibility. Contracts with long term consequences have special requirements for digital signatures, because of the signature is getting weaker over the time.

Forms Special documents are form applications - because of its characteristic a digital signature is perfect for this application field.

E-Mail The most used electronic communication where "ID-Fraud" is seen daily is E-Mail. By using certificates you can secure not only authenticity and intrgrity of mails, also the confidentiality by encrypting the mail can be asserted.

		STUDY

If you want to some research about the solutions, do this also in our knowledge base. There you can find more about the basic concepts and functionality of the particular solutions, cryptographic basics and instructions for configuration and how you can successfully build these solutions into IT-Security Governance framework.