A digital certificate is a file issued by a trust entity (called certificate authority) the aim of which is to answer the question: how do we know that a digital signature belongs to its supposed owner? For that purpose, two types of certificates are available: private key and public key. The first one, as his name suggests, is private and confidential and contains the needed information to sign document electronically. On the other hand, the public key certificate has public scope and contains the needed information to univocally identify the owner of a digital signature issued within an electronic document.

An electronic transaction is the digital form of a hard copy (invoice, order, contract, etc.). When the transaction is accompanied by a recognized digital signature, it has the same legal validity as the physical document so that it could completely substitute it.

• Reduction of delivery cost
• Automatation of the information management processes (invoice and delivery note conciliation, invoices entering, price checking…)
• Removal of administrative tasks related to the mechanization and information processing.
• Optimization of the Universal File management.

Through the Bavel platform, Voxel acts as a legal third party (regulated within the frame work of the LSSI) in the electronic transaction made among your customers. The Bavel platform discharges all the legal duties in order to provide the allowing guarantees:

• Content integrity: using the digital signature, the content of the sent document is guaranteed to be exactly the same as the one received.
• Issuer authenticity: the combination of public and private key certificates, which validity is checked in real time just when a transaction is received, allows the univocal identification of the issuer.
• Confidentiality: documents are encrypted during the transmission so that only their addresses can decrypt them
• Non-repudiation: as a result of the three previous properties, the issuer cannot disclaim responsibility for the documents electronically signed.

Likewise, Voxel Group exercises the custody over all the electronic translations issued through the Bavel platform for e minimum of 5 years, enabling either of the involved parties in the transaction to access them at will.