LuxTrust, Luxembourg's national qualified trust services provider, announced today the release of COSI Home Edition, an electronic signature online platform for individuals with a LuxTrust electronic identity or a Luxembourgish eID card.
The platform, launched in the context of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) health crisis, aims to help citizens, residents and independent workers with a LuxTrust electronic identity or a Luxembourgish eID card to better manage their administrative activities during the confinement period.
From now on, anyone equipped with a LuxTrust electronic identity and any LuxTrust device (Mobile App, Token, Scan, Smartcard or Signing Stick) or a Luxembourgish eID card can use COSI Home Edition. This online digital service allows users to sign electronically p to five PDF files per month (contracts, family leave requests, administrative files, purchase offers, etc.) free of charge.
Once connected to the COSI Home Edition platform, the user has to upload a document (in PDF format), place his / her e-signature in the document and use his / her LuxTrust credentials and device to confirm the signing action. The document signed electronically will then be privately available to download on the platform for five days. After that period, it will be automatically deleted. The user can verify the insertion of the e-signature in the PDF document using public tools such as Adobe Reader DC.
LuxTrust has guaranteed that the electronic signatures applied via this platform are legally-binding and secure, ensuring that they fulfil the strictest regulatory requirements and enjoy the highest legal recognition and acceptance within Luxembourg and European Union (EU).
Pascal Rogiest, CEO of LuxTrust, explained: “Given the current COVID-19 crisis and the associated confinement rules, we felt that it our civic mission as national trust services provider to contribute to everyone’s health, safety and comfort by providing a solution allowing citizens and residents to sign electronically. They can now do this at any time and for free using their personal LuxTrust identity. Our focus has been so far on business applications, but we have recently sped up the development of this COSI Home Edition e-signature platform and managed to make it available nationwide in a record time, thanks to a committed and collective company effort".
For more information about COSI Home Edition, visit https://www.luxtrust.com/cosi-homeedition/.
