What are the changes of contents of SBV's digital certificate from July 1, 2024? How long is the effective period of renewed digital certificates in Vietnam?
The State Bank of Vietnam: Time limit for issuance of digital certificates reduced from July 1, 2024?
Pursuant to Clause 3, Article 5 of Circular 28/2015/TT-NHNN amended by Clause 6, Article 1 of Circular 10/2020/TT-NHNN, there are regulations on the deadline for issuance of digital certificates as follows:
Issuance of digital certificates
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3. Deadline and results
Within 5 working days from the date on which applications for issuance of digital certificates are received, Department of Information Technology shall examine the applications, issue digital certificates or add digital certificate operations for subscribers, send notice on issuance of digital certificates and activation code to e-mail address and send text messages to phone number of subscribers. For digital certificates for organizations, Department of Information and Technology shall send notice on issuance of digital certificates and activation code to e-mail address and text messages to mobile number of officials in charge of digital certificates of subscriber managing organizations according to Clause 1 Article 14 of this Circular.
In case of inadequate applications, Department of Information Technology shall reject and specify the reason. Feedback and application processing results shall conform to Clause 3 Article 4a of this Circular.
Pursuant to the new regulations in Clause 7, Article 1 of Circular 16/2023/TT-NHNN, there are amendments to the time limit for issuance of digital certificates as follows:
Issuance of digital certificates or addition to digital certificate operations
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4. Settlement time limit and implementation results
Within 3 working days from the date of receipt of the valid applications for digital certificate issuance, the Department of Information Technology shall issue digital certificates or add operations to the digital certificates of the subscribers, send notifications of digital certificate issuance and activation codes of digital certificates to the emails and messages to the phone numbers of subscribers. Regarding digital certificates for organizations, the Department of Information Technology shall send notifications of digital certificate issuance and activation codes of digital certificates to the emails and messages to the phone numbers of the officials in charge of digital certificates of subscriber management organizations.
In case of invalid applications, the Department of Information Technology shall refuse to process such applications and specify the reasons within 2 working days from the date of receipt of the applications. Responses and application processing results shall comply with Clause 3 Article 4a of this Circular.
Thus, based on the new regulations, from July 1, 2024, the time limit for processing applications for issuance of digital certificates will be reduced from 05 days to 03 working days from the date of receipt of the valid applications for digital certificate issuance.
What are the changes of contents of SBV's digital certificate from July 1, 2024? How long is the effective period of renewed digital certificates in Vietnam?
What are the changes of contents of digital certificate in Vietnam from July 1, 2024?
Pursuant to current regulations in Article 4 of Circular 28/2015/TT-NHNN stipulates as follows:
Contents of digital certificate
1. Name of the CA.
2. Name of the subscriber.
3. Name of the subscriber’s organization.
4. Serial number of the digital certificate.
5. Validity period of the digital certificate.
6. Public key of the subscriber.
7. The digital signature of the CA.
8. Restrictions on purposes and scope of use of the digital certificate.
9. Restrictions on legal liability of the CA.
10. Other necessary contents as prescribed by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Pursuant to the new regulations in Clause 4, Article 1 of Circular 16/2023/TT-NHNN stipulates as follows:
Contents of digital certificates
1. Name of the CA.
2. Name of the subscriber.
3. Serial number of the digital certificate.
4. Effective period of the digital certificate.
5. Public key of the subscriber.
6. Digital signature of the CA.
7. Restrictions on purposes and scope of use of the digital certificate.
8. Restrictions on legal liability of the CA.
9. Cryptographic algorithm.
10. Other necessary contents according to the regulations of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam.”
Thus, based on the new regulations in Circular 16/2023/TT-NHNN, the content of the State Bank's digital certificate removes information about the subscriber’s organization and replaces it with cryptographic algorithm information.
How long is the effective period of renewed digital certificates in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Clause 8, Article 1 of Circular 16/2023/TT-NHNN amending and supplementing Article 6 of Circular 28/2015/TT-NHNN stipulates as follows:
Renewal and revision to digital certificates
1. Digital certificates requested for renewal or revision to their information shall still be effective.
2. Effective period of digital certificates:
a) Renewed digital certificates shall be effective no more than 5 years from the time of successful renewal;
b) Revisions to information in digital certificates shall not change the effective period of such digital certificates.
3. In case of renewal or revision to digital certificates:
a) Subscriber management organizations shall request renewal of digital certificates of subscribers at least 10 days before the expiry date of such digital certificates;
b) Subscriber management organizations shall request revisions to the information in digital certificates of subscribers within 5 working days when:
- Subscribers change their working titles, positions, or departments, but their working units or branches remain the same. In case subscribers change working units or branches, subscriber management organizations shall carry out the procedure for revoking the digital certificates at the previous units or branches and issue new digital certificates to the subscribers at their new units or branches (if they wish to continue using digital certificates);
- Subscribers change their citizen cards/citizen identification cards/passports;
- Subscribers changes their addresses, emails, or phone numbers.
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Thus, based on the above regulations, in case of renewal to digital certificates, the digital certificate will be effective no more than 5 years from the time of successful renewal.
Circular 16/2023/TT-NHNN comes into force from July 1, 2024
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