Vidhara

The Information Technology Act, 2000

§40Generating key pair

Where any Digital Signature Certificate the public key of which corresponds to the private key of that subscriber which is to be listed in the Digital Signature Certificate has been accepted by a subscriber, *** the subscriber shall generate [that key] pair by applying the security procedure.

Share:WhatsAppTelegram

Source & version

Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Information Technology Act, 2000, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1999/1/A2000-21 (1).pdf, 462,882 bytes, sha256 45fb45419e5da89a...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

How we verify this text →

Spotted a mistake in this text or its mapping? Report an issue with ITA §40

Was this page useful for your prep?

Feedback