LuxTrust and Cryptomathic to offer remote e-Signature assurance

By Megha Bhattacharya

LuxTrust announced recently that its users will now be able to benefit from a high level of e-signature security in the EU while remotely signing documents and transactions during their day to day use of digital services. The new development has been brought by the collaboration of European qualified Trust Service Provider LuxTrust and Cryptomathic.

“Luxembourg’s digital economy already provides businesses and individuals with an unusually high number of government, institutional and private sector digital services,” commented Pascal Rogiest, CEO, LuxTrust. “Our partnership with Cryptomathic has enabled us to upgrade our electronic signature services and to ensure that all users can now benefit from the highest level of legal protection when remotely authenticating and signing transactions and legally binding electronic documents. This achievement puts the Luxembourg digital ecosystem at the forefront in Europe; it is the only nationwide digital identity system to reach qualified level.”

The partnership follows the completion of LuxTrust’s technical migration to an eIDAS-certified QSCD version of Signer, Cryptomathic’s remote qualified digital signature solution, which has enabled LuxTrust to upgrade all of its clients (citizens and businesses) to the highest eIDAS-qualified level, according to the EU regulation’s requirements.

Guillaume Forget, Managing Director, Cryptomathic GmbH, commented, “This is a significant milestone in Luxembourg’s digitalisation journey. The global need to support social distancing measures has dramatically accelerated every country’s use of digital services and heightened the need for gold standard security in remote transaction and document signing. With this project now complete, citizens, businesses and institutions in Luxembourg can perform e-signatures carrying the same legal value as those performed face-to-face, by hand. Luxembourg is now setting the pace here. Cryptomathic is delighted to be playing such a meaningful and sustainable role in the country’s digital development.”