SSL.com’s eSigner cloud signing service lets you conveniently add globally trusted digital signatures and timestamps to your documents and code from anywhere, with no need for USB tokens, HSMs, or other special hardware. Certificates and signing keys are securely stored in the cloud and can be accessed via the eSigner Express app or Cloud Signature Consortium (CSC) compliant API.
eSigner is fully compatible with the CSC cloud signing standard. Businesses and other organizations can integrate eSigner with their document and code signing workflows. Software publishers and service providers can use eSigner to offer digital signing capabilities to their customers. eSigner also features MS Doc capability.
eSigner is available to all SSL.com EV Code Signing and Document Signing customers. For more information, please submit the information request form below.
Features:
Digital Signatures in the Cloud:
No need for USB tokens, HSMs, or other specialized hardware.
Globally Trusted CA:
eSigner signatures and timestamps are trusted by operating systems and applications worldwide, including Adobe Acrobat, Windows Authenticode, and Java.
World-Class PKI:
SSL.com handles the public key infrastructure (PKI). Businesses and developers can avoid costs associated with hardware, software, and full-time expert staff.
eSigner Express App:
Sign documents and code with an intuitive GUI web application.
API Integration:
Cloud Signature Consortium (CSC) compliant API for integration with front-end apps, including DocuSign and Adobe Sign.
Long-Term Validation (LTV):
eSigner signatures include long-term validation (LTV) for signed PDFs, meaning your digital signatures will not expire when your document signing certificate expires or needs to be revoked.
Tools for Automation:
CodeSignTool and DocSignTool command line tools available for automation and workflow processes. Automate signings with signtool.exe and certutil.exe.
eSigner Cloud Signing Videos
Digital Signatures
eSigner’s digital signatures use PKI-based digital certificates that bind an identity (such as a person or company) to a cryptographic key pair. When a file like a PDF or Word document, executable application, or driver is digitally signed, a cryptographic hash of the document’s content and the identity of the signatory are bound together to form a unique digital fingerprint, ensuring:
Authentication: The identity of the signer has been validated by a publicly trusted certificate authority (CA).
Integrity: The document has not been altered since it was signed.
Non-repudiation: Because authentication and integrity are insured by a digital signature, a signatory cannot plausibly deny that they signed a document.
SSL.com provides the highest level of validation with Document Signing certificates. BUY DOCUMENT SIGNING CERTIFICATES
Universal Trust
As a publicly trusted CA, SSL.com is trusted by operating systems, web browsers, and software vendors like Adobe and Microsoft to validate the identities of individuals, companies, and government organizations. Because of this, eSigner’s signatures are trusted by:
Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader
Windows Authenticode and Java
SSL.com provides the highest level of validation with Extended Validation Code Signing certificates.
Legal and Enforceable Worldwide
eSigner document signatures are legal and enforceable under the United States Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce (ESIGN) act and the European Union’s Electronic Identification and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation, as well as the laws of many other nations worldwide.
eSigner Subscription Pricing Tiers
eSigner signing credentials can be used in API automation (i.e. CI/CD for code signing, and workflow processes for document signing) or on the eSigner Express web app. They can share the same certificate as other signing credentials, or they can individually access their own certificate for signing operations.
EV Code Signing
| Monthly Subscription | Annual Subscription (25% discount) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier | Signing Credentials * | Signings | Cost | Signings | Cost | Additional Signings (each) |
| 1 | 1 | 10 | $100.00 | 120 | $900.00 ($75/mo) | $10.00 |
| 2 | 3 | 100 | $300.00 | 1,200 | $2,700.00 ($225/mo) | $3.00 |
| 3 | 7 | 1,000 | $700.00 | 12,000 | $6,300.00 ($525/mo) | $0.70 |
| 4 | 15 | 10,000 | $1,500.00 | 120,000 | $13,500.00 ($1,125/mo) | $0.15 |
For EV code signing volumes above 10,000 per month, please contact SSL.com’s enterprise sales team at Sales@SSL.com.
* Additional code signing credentials are priced at $29.00 per month in all tiers.
Document Signing (IV, OV, and IV/OV)
| Monthly Subscription | Annual Subscription (25% discount) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier | Signing Credentials † | Signings | Cost | Signings | Cost | Additional Signings (each) |
| 1 | 1 | 20 | $20.00 | 240 | $180.00 ($15/mo) | $1.00 |
| 2 | 5 | 100 | $85.00 | 1,200 | $765.00 ($63.75/mo) | $0.85 |
| 3 | 9 | 300 | $175.00 | 3,600 | $1,575.00 ($131.25/mo) | $0.58 |
| 4 | 13 | 1,000 | $250.00 | 12,000 | $2,250.00 ($187.50/mo) | $0.25 |
For document signing volumes above 1,000 per month, please contact SSL.com’s enterprise sales team at Sales@SSL.com.
- Overages will be charged at the monthly per-signature rate corresponding to the customer’s current pricing tier (i.e. Customers at Tier 1 for Code Signing will be charged at $10/signature for each signature beyond their allotted number of signings)
- Re-enrollment upon cancellation available for a $150 fee
† Additional document signing credentials are priced at $20.00 per month in all tiers.
Reach out to our sales team for more information on getting set up with eSigner.
