Vietnam: Issuance of digital certificates to subscribers

Specifically, according to Decree No. 130/2018/NÐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the public certification authorities may issue a digital certificate to a subscriber only if:

- Information declared in the application for issuance of digital certificate is correct;

- Public key on the digital certificate will be issued as a unique and the same pair with the private key of the applicant for the digital certificate.

Digital certificates are only issued to the applicants and must contain all the information.

The public certification authority may only publish the digital certificate issued to the subscriber on the database on their digital certificates after the subscriber confirmed that the information on the digital certificate is correct; the publishing time is no later than 24 hours after the confirmation of subscription, unless otherwise agreed.

Public certification authorities may not refuse to issue digital certificates to applicants without legitimate reason.

Public certification authorities must maintain security during the creation and transfer of digital certificates to subscribers.

Moreover, Decree No. 130/2018/NÐ-CP also stipulates the renewal of digital certificates to subscribers as follows:

- At least 30 days prior to the expiration of the digital certificate, the subscriber may request for renewal of digital certificate.

- Upon receiving a request for renewal, the public certification authority is obliged to complete the procedures for renewal of digital certificate before subscriber’s digital certificate expires.

- In case of changing the public key on the digital certificates renewed, the subscriber must indicate it clearly in the written requests; the creation of key, key distribution and publication of renewed digital certificates shall comply with the provisions in Article 24, Article 25 of this Decree.

View more details at Decree No. 130/2018/NÐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 15, 2018.

-Thao Uyen-

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