Emitec issues digital certificates ("Certificates", also known as "Digital IDs") to its employees and agents, to its known business partners and to Emitec web sites.
Emitec has made the following Certificates available for downloading:
For the building of the available certificates we used the tool Ultimaco Safeware AG -SecureE-Mail Gateway - (http://www.ultimaco.com). In this software is the tool GnuPG (Version: 1.2.3 (Gnu/Linux) included.
Except as explicitly provided in an applicable agreement with an Authorized Relying Party or Subscriber, Emitec CA(s) expressly disclaims all representations, warranties (express or implied) and liability -- except for willful misconduct and gross negligence -- concerning the functionality, issuance, use, validity, or accuracy of Emitec Certificates, including the identity of any person named by a Emitec Certificate or their authority to act on behalf of Emitec.
Digital signatures are a method of authenticating digital information analogous to ordinary physical signatures on paper, but implemented using techniques from the field of cryptography. Digital signatures differ in some respects from their physical counterparts, however.
source: en.wikipedia.org
In cryptography, a public key certificate (or identity certificate) is a certificate which uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity - information such as the name of a person or an organisation, their address, and so forth. The certificate can be used to verify that a public key belongs to an individual.
source: en.wikipedia.org