Service licensing

This section defines the licensing terms and permitted uses for the Signing Automation Service, including the Signing Client software.

In this document, when we refer to “you”, we mean the customer who has purchased the Signing Automation Service or one of that customer’s Users. In general, the Signing Automation Service is for the customer’s internal use only. However, the customer is permitted to appoint outside organizations and/or their software applications as Users and distribute the Signing Client software to such Users, solely to enable those Users to use the Signing Automation Service on the customer’s behalf (and not for the outside User’s benefit). The customer is responsible for overseeing and controlling how the Users use the Signing Automation Service.

You may deploy the Entrust Signing Client software on your company’s infrastructure and/or commercial cloud accounts. You are strongly encouraged to keep your deployments up to date with our latest product release.

You may use the Signing Automation Service only to apply for and in connection with one or more Digital Certificates that identify you (Entrust’s customer) as the Subject by your organization name (e.g., “ABC Ltd”) or one of your corporate affiliates if that affiliate authorizes you to digitally sign hashed data on its behalf. You are expressly prohibited from using the Signing Automation Service together with Digital Certificates that identify as the Subject any person other than yourself or an affiliate that has authorized you to sign hashed data on its behalf. You are expressly prohibited from using the Signing Automation Service in conjunction with any Digital Certificate not issued by Entrust or other Entrust PKI services.

For each subscription to the Signing Automation Service, we will provide a license key that determines the number of digital signatures that you may generate using the service, the number of Digital Certificates with which you may use the service, and/or for otherwise enabling or controlling certain functions within the service. You may not copy or alter your license key. You may not circumvent or attempt to circumvent the license key mechanism. You may only use a license key provided by Entrust and only in conjunction with the Signing Automation Service and Signing Client software and its APIs for which it was delivered. Unless otherwise specified in your Order(s), each Entrust Signing Automation Service license key is capped to one Digital Certificate based and a number of signatures to be consumed within one year. Additional Digital Certificates or number of signatures can be purchased separately.

Your subscription to the Signing Automation Service provides you with access to Entrust Timestamping Authority service, which permits you to obtain the same number of timestamps as the number of contracted signatures within the same period.

Each issuing or reissuing of a signing certificate consumes one of the 10,000 licensed signatures.

The Entrust Signing Client software includes software developed by the OpenSSL Software Foundation, and provides an interface compatible with the PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki) by RSA Security Inc. and Microsoft KSP/CNG Key Storage Provider. Please review the software attributes for the full software list.