Welcome to Hongkong Post e-Cert

Hongkong Post e-Cert CA

About Hongkong Post e-Cert

Hongkong Post e-Cert - From Secured to Re-assured
The Solution to Online Trading

We have all witnessed the explosion of Internet services and how they have integrated into our daily lives. People are now used to sending email, exchanging electronic data and conducting commercial transactions over the Internet or other electronic means regularly.

Like a lot of us however, you probably still wonder how secure your online transactions are. Concerns arise as to whether:

a person is really who he/she claims to be;
your e-mail content has been tampered with; and
the privacy of your electronic communications with others can be protected.

1. That is why Hongkong Post built a Public Key Infrastructure ("PKI") in early 2000 and became the first public recognised certification authority ("CA") under the Electronic Transactions Ordinance ("ETO") (Cap. 553). As a public CA, Hongkong Post CA issues recognized digital certificates ("e-Cert") that comply with the provisions of the ETO. Under the ETO, digital signature supported by an e-Cert enjoys the same legal status as a handwritten signature. In addition, Hongkong Post CA has also launched the world's first Mobile e-Cert system to issue mobile e-Cert to support online services conducted through mobile devices. Both the Hongkong Post e-Cert and Mobile e-Cert are issued to individuals and businesses to authenticate the online identity of subscribers and provided a secure and trusted environment for the conduct of online transactions. Hongkong Post CA also maintains a certificate repository and directory to allow the public to verify the validity of a particular Hongkong Post e-Cert or Mobile e-Cert prior to carrying out online transactions.

These services provide a secure and trusted environment for the conduct of online transactions.

Hongkong Post e-Cert has so many advantages

Authentication - proof of identity of the parties in an electronic transaction;
Integrity - proof that the message contents have not been altered, deliberately or accidentally, during transmission;
Non-Repudiation - proof of agreement of the terms of transactions and prevention of denial of commitment; and
Confidentiality - protection that the content and information of a transaction is kept private and secret from unauthorised third parties.

The types of Hongkong Post digital certificates

Hongkong Post issues seven types of digital certificates to individuals and organisations in Hong Kong : -

[Recognition Status] of Hongkong Post CA and above e-Certs.

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