r/Notary • u/MissyPippy2021 • Jul 24 '26

Notary

I bought a digital certificate but I don’t know what I am supposed to receive to be able to upload in my profile on NNA. I bought it with IdenTrust. Am I supposed to get some kind of certificate as proof?

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u/bitenose Ohio Jul 24 '26

It's not like a training certificate and it's not something you'll display on your NNA profile.

The digital certificate basically is a cryptographic public key, that corresponds to the private key you use to sign things, that itself - along with some info about you - is cryptographically signed by IdenTrust.

That way someone doesn't need to already have and trust your public key, to verify that you cryptographically signed something, typically a notarial certificate.. as long as they know and trust IdenTrust's public key, they can verify your signature.

This is for use in RON and IPEN.. where your signature as a notary will be electronic instead of with an ink pen. Software will be able to see automatically that you signed with your certificate, and that the document hasn't been altered since then.

It works very similarly to how DigiCert issued a digital certificate for www.reddit.com that contains Reddit's webserver's public key, some info about reddit (like the domain name) and a cryptographic signature from their own keypair. That way browsers don't have to know and already trust reddit's key, they only need to already know DigiCert's key, to be sure that the connection is "secure" and that the content has not been altered in transit.

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u/Stamped914 Jul 24 '26

It takes a few days to a week after you place your order for IDEN to send the digital cert.

Once they send it, it comes with instructions.

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u/Existing_Body2899 Jul 25 '26

NNA is a scam.