e-Cert - Your Electronic ID

Hongkong Post e-Cert can be regarded as a user's "electronic-ID" for online identity authentication. It ensures integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation of the data transmitted in an electronic transaction.

Hongkong Post, as a recognized Certification Authority ("CA") is responsible under the Electronic Transactions Ordinance for the use of a trustworthy system for the issuance, withdrawal, and publication in a publicly available repository of recognized digital certificates for secure on-line identification. Such recognized certificates are called "e-Certs" which means a record which :-

• is issued by a certification authority for the purpose of supporting a digital signature which purports to confirm the identity or other significant characteristics of the person who holds a particular key pair;
• identifies the certification authority issuing it;
• names or identifies the person to whom it is issued;
• contains the public key of the person to whom it is issued; and
• is signed by the certification authority issuing it.

[Recognition Status] of Hongkong Post CA and e-Cert.