MEITY amends the Second Schedule of the IT Act, 2000

This notification has inserted a new provision on e- authentication technique and procedure for creating and assessing subscriber’s signature key facilitated by trusted third-party. The provision specifies the responsibilities of the trusted third party, for example, facilitation of identity verification of the Digital Signature Certificate applicant, facilitation of key pair-generation, secure storage of subscriber’s signature key, etc. This new provision will now be in addition to the existing provision on e- authentication technique through Aadhaar and other e- KYC services.