Electronic signature (QES)
What is a qualified electronic signature?
According to Article 14 para. 2bis of the Swiss Code of Obligations, a qualified electronic signature is equivalent to a handwritten signature. What constitutes a qualified electronic signature is governed by the Federal Act on Electronic Signatures (ESigA). The Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS) publishes a list of the recognised certification services.
Recognised issuers of QES certificates in accordance with ZertES:
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
Alte Tiefenaustrasse 6
CH-3050 Bern
Swisscom Sign: your electronic signature | Swisscom
Signing Service – Swisscom Trust Services AG
QuoVadis Trustlink Schweiz AG
Poststrasse 17
CH-9001 St. Gallen
DigiCert+QuoVadis | Switzerland (quovadisglobal.com)
SwissSign AG
Sägereistrasse 25
CH-8152 Glattbrugg
Elektronische signature | SwissID Sign
Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT)
Monbijoustrasse 74
CH-3003 Bern
Swiss Government PKI (admin.ch)
(for governmental authorities only, exclusively with class A certificates)
Other providers of electronic signature solutions in Switzerland:
- Certifaction AG
User-friendly QES (qualified electronic signature) (certifaction.com) - DeepSign, Deep Cloud AG
Electronic Signatures – Legally valid, Secure, Swiss | DeepSign - eSignR
the software for confidential digital signatures according to eIDAS and ZertES - fidentity AG
Identification and digital signature. – Simple. Secure. Flexible. - PrivaSphere AG
PrivaSphere Sign & Send - Skribble AG
Skribble – legally valid electronic signing - XiTrust Secure Technologies AG Switzerland
eSignature for your business | XiTrust – The eSignature Company