NEAC Officially Transitions National Root CA Infrastructure

On November 25, in Hanoi, the National Electronic Authentication Center (NEAC) held a ceremony to create a key to issue a root digital signature certificate for the National Electronic Authentication Service Provider (Root CA) under the name of the Ministry of Science and Technology. This is a key step in transforming the technical infrastructure to synchronize with the new name of the governing body, the Ministry of Science and Technology, after the merger.

The event marks the completion and update of the national trust infrastructure for digital signatures, ensuring consistency with the current name of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the new legal framework for electronic transactions, electronic signatures and trust services.

Transforming infrastructure to suit the new context

The creation of keys and issuance of digital signature certificates for Root CA under the name of the Ministry of Science and Technology is carried out to standardize identification information after the Ministry of Information and Communications merged and took the common name of the Ministry of Science and Technology, ensuring the legitimacy and legality of the organization providing national electronic certification services, as well as maintaining a high level of trust for systems using digital signatures in the operations of state agencies, businesses and people.

At the same time, in response to the new legal framework on trusted services, the national Root CA has self-issued 4 digital signature certificates for 04 services including: Digital signature certificate for digital signature authentication service according to the USB TOKEN model; Digital signature certificate for digital signature authentication service according to the remote digital signature model; Digital signature certificate for digital signature authentication service according to the digital signature model on mobile devices; Digital signature certificate for timestamp service.

Digital signature certificates are published on the website https://rootca.gov.vn)

The key generation ceremony took place at NEAC's main data center (Telecommunications Department Building, 68 Duong Dinh Nghe, Hanoi ). The entire process was strictly carried out according to the approved script with independent roles: Administration, Operation and Witness. All operations were checked, confirmed, recorded and fully recorded, meeting the requirements of transparency, auditing and technical supervision.

International standard technology solutions, absolutely safe

The Root CA system uses an advanced technology platform that meets international and domestic standards on public key infrastructure:

International standard solution: Use digital signature certificate lifecycle management solution, comply with international standards. Support advanced encryption algorithms such as RSA and ECDSA and ready for future expansion.

Maximum security: using advanced encryption algorithm with key length of 4096 bits. The system and technical solutions are also ready to upgrade to support higher key lengths or new encryption algorithms while still ensuring data integrity and security according to international standards;

Ensuring service continuity

Speaking at the ceremony, the representative of the National Electronic Authentication Center emphasized: “With the role of 'national root of trust', NEAC determined that the creation of a new root digital signature certificate for the Root CA system is not simply a technical update under the new name of the Ministry, but also a mission to strengthen the foundation of trust for Vietnam's digital infrastructure. This is a key step to perfect the trust infrastructure and ensure legal compliance in the new context. NEAC is committed to operating the system safely, stably, continuously and absolutely transparently to accompany ministries, branches, localities, businesses and people in implementing electronic transactions and national digital transformation.”

According to NEAC, the use of the new original digital signature certificate does not disrupt current services. The old original digital signature certificate is still valid and the digital signature certificates of the Public Digital Signature Service Providers issued by the old original digital signature certificate will continue to be used and maintained until their expiration, ensuring that the digital signature certificate chains issued to state agencies, organizations, businesses and people operate normally. On the basis of the new original digital signature certificate, NEAC will gradually issue digital signature certificates to trusted service providers to provide services.

In the coming time, NEAC will continue to coordinate with trusted service providers, ministries, branches and localities to standardize the use of new original digital signature certificates in application systems; continue to perfect certification regulations, technical processes, and safety standards; at the same time, strengthen propaganda, guidance, and support for organizations and individuals to effectively exploit digital signatures and trusted services in all areas of economic and social life./.

Center for Science and Technology Communication

Source: https://mst.gov.vn/neac-chinh-thuc-chuyen-doi-ha-tang-root-ca-quoc-gia-197251125210646666.htm