CCA Root: Old and New Root Certificate Information
The present CCA (Controller of Certifying Authority in India) Root would expire on 05.03.2024, so all certificates issued under this Root would get invalidated post this date for ALL CA's in India.
Our CCA has issued a new Root called 2022 and the same would be integrated with all the applications in coming months.
Capricorn CA (Capricorn.Cash Portal) already has capabilities to handle multiple CCA root in our system, and you would have an option to issue DSC in 'Capricorn 2014' (Existing and Old Root) or 'Capricorn 2022' (New Root). If you get the old root certificate before or on 5.03.2022 you will avail full validity of 2 years, if you get the certificate after the above mentioned date, still the validity will expire on 5.03.2024 and you will miss out on the respective days of validity.
Any days missed in your old root certificate's usage will be compensated by the company. For example - If you get it on 10th March’22, You will still not be able to use it after 5th March’24 and you will have 5 less days of usage. To compensate for the days missed by you, the company will issue a new certificate for you whose validity will be for 5 days.
Digital signing sertificate is the digital equivalent of a physical or paper certificate. Like the physical documents are signed manually, likewise digital documents are required to be signed digitally using a Digital Signature Certificate. It serves the same purpose as a normal signature that we do on various documents to attest our identity. It just happens digitally on digital documents through a digital signing certificate.
