Information about purchasing a digital certificate from IdenTrust.
🎯Primary Audience: Notaries
Our website lists onboarding requirements for each state. From the Notary page, scroll down to the map and click your state.
Need to Know
A digital certificate is an electronic credential used to digitally tamper seal notarized documents. You must purchase a digital certificate from IdenTrust and upload it to your profile.
Obtaining a digital certificate from IdenTrust takes between 3 and 5 days. You may choose any of the 3 IGC Agencies Basic Assurance Unaffiliated certificate options:
- 1 Year: $77.00
- 2 Year: $137.00
- 3 Year: $182.00
FAQs
Who is Identrust?
IdenTrust is the digital certificate provider of choice for the Proof platform. We do not accept any other digital certificates at this time. Obtain and/or download your digital certificate:
- I need to obtain a digital certificate
- I need instructions on how to download my digital certificate
Why do I need a digital certificate?
A digital certificate provides an electronic means of proving your identity to Proof and the notary regulator in the applicable commissioning state.
Digital certificates:
- Identifies the notary that provided services on an electronic document
- Enable the notary to digitally sign an electronic document
- Tamper seals the electronic document to assure the recipient that the document has not changed since the digital certificate was applied.
Why does IdenTrust need my personal information?
IdenTrust must validate a notary's identity to issue a digital certificate. The personal information must be provided by a notary to IdenTrust to validate their identity. Issuing this digital certificate to a notary is similar to a remote notarization when a signer goes through identity verification.
IdenTrust issues certificates under the IdenTrust Global Common (IGC) program, a policy owned and managed by IdenTrust and cross-certified with the Federal Bridge PKI program for digitally signing and sealing electronic documents. IGC certificates are considered identity-based because the identity of the individual who applies for the certificate is “vetted” by validating that the information provided during the application process is accurate. Only then can a digital certificate be issued.
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A digital certificate is required for every notary in every state that permits RON. A digital certificate provides an electronic means of proving your identity to Proof and the notary regulator in the applicable commissioning state.
How is Proof different than other RON providers?
Other remote notarization platforms issue their own digital certificates to notaries by requiring them to seek another notary for a paper/traditional notarization using an affidavit of identity. Essentially, they rely on a notary's old, outdated in-person verification practices to identify a notary for their RON platforms - how crazy is that?!?
Proof relies upon IdenTrust to securely authenticate your identity and issue a digital certificate to you, using a NIST Level of Assurance for remote identity verification. This includes using Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA) to provide better identity verification of a notary before issuing a digital certificate. Additionally, IdenTrust requires notaries to comply with the Federal Bridge Certificate Authority standards for identity verification.
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