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Section 40 IT Act — Generating key pair

The Information Technology Act, 2000 · Official PDF page 20

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40. Generating 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, 1*** the subscriber shall generate 2[that key] pair by applying the security procedure.

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