What are the advantages of using e-Apostilles?
An e-Apostille signed using a digital certificate will provide the following assurances: • Integrity – assurance that the complete e-Apostille file has not been altered; • Authentication – assurance as to the origin of the e-Apostille; and • Non-repudiation – assurance that the e-Apostille was indeed signed by the Competent Authority identified in the e-Apostille. Considering that current methods of attaching paper Apostilles to the underlying public document (e.g., the use of staples or other insecure forms of attachment) render them easily vulnerable to fraud, the use of PDF e-Apostilles in combination with digital certificates offers dramatically increased security and effective fraud-fighting tools to Competent Authorities and all users of Apostilles.
