Planned maintenance work 30.07.2021
From 30.07.2021 from 22h00 until Saturday 31.07.2021 06h00 maintenance work will be carried out on the SwissSign- infrastructure. If the work cannot be completed, we...
Mehr anzeigenTechnical issue SwissSign CA Services 16.07.2021
We would like to inform you that due to a technical problem, the SwissSign CA Services are currently not available or only available to a limited extent. We are working flat out to solve...
Mehr anzeigenResolved: Technical Issue SwissSign CA Services 16.07.2021
We are glad to inform you that the technical problem has been solved. SwissSign CA Services are now available again without restrictions since 16.10h.
Mehr anzeigenAdaptation of the swisssign.net user interface
We are pleased to inform you that with the next release – planned for 28 June 2021 – we will be making an adaption to the user interface...
Mehr anzeigenUpdate 17.6. | Technical issue resolved
We are happy to inform you that our systems have be restored and are fully available again. The outage occurred due to connectivity problems between internet service providers (ISP). We...
Mehr anzeigenTechnical error
Due to a technical issue, our systems are unfortunately currently not available or only available to a limited extent. We are working intensively to solve the problem as quickly as...
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Release change on 28 June 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 28. June 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Mehr anzeigenPlanned maintenance work 28.05.2021
From 28.05.2021 from 22h00 until Saturday 29.05.2021 06h00 maintenance work will be carried out on the SwissSign infrastructure. We strive to keep the restrictions as...
Mehr anzeigenRelease will take place new on 24 April 2021, from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Dear business partner, We would like to announce the following adjustment to the schedule regarding the Release planned on 10.04.2021. Based on the outcome of our testing-activities,...
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CA Release change on 10 April 2021 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work, which will be carried out on Saturday, 10. April 2021 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Mehr anzeigenEmergency Change
On March 23rd 2021 between 10.00 pm and 24th 06.00 am, an important emergency change has to be applied to the SwissSign infrastructure due to high outage risk. We do our best to...
Mehr anzeigenCA Release change on 8 March 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 8. March 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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Planned maintenance
On 06.02.2021 and 07.02.2021 between 00.00 am and 09.00 am, important patches will be applied to the SwissSign infrastructure.
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Reminder - Correct creation of requests e-mail certificates
We would like to remind you that requests for e-mail certificates must be created with correct content.
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Release change on 11 January 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to urgent maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 11 January 2021 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Mehr anzeigenSecurity Patch Installation
Security Patch Installation on 19.12.2020 and 20.12.2020 between 03.00 am and 09.00
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Release change on 14 December 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to urgent maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 14 December 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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RESCHEDULING: Release change on 7 December 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight instead of 30 November 2020
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that our maintenance work, which was scheduled for Monday, 30 November 2020 will be postponed to Monday, 7 December 2020, 6:00 pm to...
Mehr anzeigenAdditional Security Patch Installation
On November 22st 2020 between 04.00 am and 09.00 am, important security patches will be applied to the SwissSign infrastructure.
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Security Patch Installation
On November 21st 2020 between 04.00 am and 09.00 am, important security patches will be applied to the SwissSign infrastructure. We do our best to minimize the impact.
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Release change on 30 November 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 30 November 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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RESCHEDULING: Release change on 26 October 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight instead of 19 October 2020
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that our maintenance work, which was scheduled for Monday, 19 October 2020 will be postponed to Monday, 26 October 2020, 6:00 pm to midnight.
Mehr anzeigenRelease change on 19 October 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 19 October 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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All systems fully available again
The serious DDoS attacks against the infrastructure of the SwissSign Group, which were launched on 31 August 2020, stopped on Tuesday, 8 September. The various measures we took have...
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Technical incident – DDos attacks – Update September 8th, 2020
The DDoS attacks by unknown persons against the SwissSign Group infrastructure, which have been ongoing since Monday, 31 August 2020, continue. We are still in close contact with our...
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Technical incident: UPDATE
We are currently affected by a massive distributed denial of service attack. Our services are therefore only available to a limited extent. We are in close contact with the NCSC and...
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Technical incident of 31.08.2020 - services partly not available
Due to a technical incident the swisssign.net website is currently not available. Accordingly, acquired certificates can currently not be redeemed. We are working hard to resolve the...
Mehr anzeigenRelease change on 24 August 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 24 August 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Mehr anzeigenRelease change on 29 June 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 29 June 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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RESCHEDULING: Release change on 23 April 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight instead of 20 April 2020
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that our maintenance work, which was scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, will be postponed to Thursday, April 23, 2020, 6:00 pm to...
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Release change on 20 April 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 20 April 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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Connectivity problems regarding OCSP responder
Friday 3 April 2020: We currently experience connectivity problems regarding our OCSP responder
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Solved: Connectivity problem regarding OCSP responder has been solved
Friday 3 April 2020, 12:06 pm: Connectivity problem regarding OCSP responder has been solved.
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Release change on 23 March 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Monday, 23 March 2020 from 6 p.m. to midnight.
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Planned maintenance work on Saturday, 15 February 2020
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out on Saturday, 15 February, between 06.00h and 23.59h.
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Release change on 1 February 2020 from 8.00h - 15.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out on Saturday, 1 February, between 8.00 am and 3.00 pm.
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Planned maintenance work from 17 January 16:00h to 19 January 2020 23:59h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out between Friday, 17 January 16:00h to Sunday 19 January 23:59h.
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Release change on 5 December 2019 from 18.00h - 20.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out on Thursday, 5 December 2019, between 18.00h and 20.00h.
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CANCELLATION of planned release change on 30 November 2019 from 08.00h - 15.00h
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the planned maintenance work on Saturday, 30 November 2019, between 08.00h and 15.00h is CANCELLED.
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Release change on 2 November 2019 from 08.00h - 15.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out on Saturday, 2 November 2019, between 08.00h and 15.00h.
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Release change on 5 October 2019 from 08.00h - 15.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work which will be carried out on Saturday, 5 October 2019, between 08.00h and 15.00h.
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Release change on 24 August 2019 from 08.00h - 15.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Saturday, 24 August 2019, between 08.00h and 15.00h.
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Release change on 10 August 2019 from 08.00h - 20.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Saturday, 23 February 2019, between 08.00h and 20.00h.
Mehr anzeigenImportant Information: Changes in Domain Validation
Dear customers and partners, We would like to inform you about the upcoming changes to domain validation for Managed PKI certificates. Due to the increased requirements of the...
Mehr anzeigenRelease change on 18 May 2019 from 08.00h - 16.00h
We would like to draw your attention to planned maintenance work, which will be carried out on Saturday, 18 May 2019, between 08.00h and 16.00h (Release 5.1).
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Change of CA software release on 23 February 2019 from 08 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to scheduled maintenance work that will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, 23 February 2019 (Release 4.16).
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Changes to Key Generation Methods for SSL Certificates
We would like to inform you that due to changes in the Mozilla Root Store Policy version 2.6, it is no longer permitted for a Certificate Authority (CA) to generate private keys for...
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Change of CA software release on 15 September 2018 from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to scheduled maintenance work that will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, 15 September (release 4.14).
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Change of CA software release on 30 June 2018 from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to scheduled maintenance work that will be carried out between 8am and 2pm on Saturday, 30 June 2018 (release 4.13).
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Changes to Domain Validation Methods
Dear customers and partners, We would like to draw your attention to upcoming changes to domain validation methods. On February 2, 2018, the CA/Browser Forum decided with Ballot...
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Change of CA software release on May 26th, 2018 from 8 am - 2 pm
We would like to draw your attention to scheduled maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 2pm on Saturday, May 26th 2018 (release 4.12).
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Planned change release: Monday 14 May 2018 from 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Dear SwissSign customers, partners and people interested in SwissSign, Our website www.swisssign.com is unfortunately unavailable on Monday 14 May 2018 from 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm because...
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Change of CA software release on May 5th, 2018 from 8 am - 2 pm
We would like to draw your attention to unscheduled maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 2pm on Saturday, May 5th 2018 (release 4.11).
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Canceled: Release change on March 17, 2018
Due to sick leave, we have to cancel the maintenance work next Saturday.
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Change of CA software release on March, 17th, 2018 from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, January 13th 2018 (release 4.11).
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Release Notes for Release 14.01.2018
New features in this Release: - RSASSA-PSS Signature Algorithm - Registration documents via e-mail
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Maintenance work tomorrow Dec. 9th between 9am and 10am
During this period, maintenance work on central network components takes place, which can lead to short system interruptions if necessary.
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SwissSign: Planned Maintenance work on Thursday 7 December 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Dear SwissSign customers, partners and people interested in SwissSign, Our website www.swisssign.com is unfortunately unavailable on Thursday 7 December 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm because...
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E-mail ID Gold Certificates are no longer sold in the webshop.
E-mail ID Gold Certificates are only available within a Managed PKI.
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December and February: No longer 3-year SSL certificates will be sold and issued
From March 1st, 2018, 3-year SSL certificates may no longer be issued. Please note the following dates.
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Prevent of access to swisssign.net/cgi-bin/authority/crl on January, 13th 2018
Access will be prevented to this link on January, 13th 2018.
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Change of CA software release on January, 13th, 2018 from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, January 13th 2018 (release 4.10).
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Release notes of the release of November, 4th 2017
SwissSign installed a new CA software on the weekend indicated. The following points include all relevant changes.
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RSA vulnerability with Infineon smart cards - situation SwissSign
We would like to inform you about the harmlessness of your SmartCards for SuisseID and organizational certificates concerning this issue.
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Change of CA software release on November 4th, 2017 from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, November 4th (release 4.9).
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SwissSign: Planned Maintenance work on Thursday 7 September 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Dear SwissSign customers, partners and people interested in SwissSign, Our website www.swisssign.com is unfortunately unavailable on Thursday 7 September 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm because...
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SwissSign: Planned Maintenance work on Monday 21 August 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Dear SwissSign customers, partners and people interested in SwissSign, Our website www.swisssign.com is unfortunately unavailable on Monday 21 August 2017 from 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm because...
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Change of CA Software Release on 2017, September 2nd from 8 am - 8 pm
We would like to draw your attention to maintenance work which will be carried out between 8am and 8pm on Saturday, September 2nd (release 4.8).
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2017-08-11 New framework of legal contract documents
We have adapted our Terms and Conditions, Subscriber Conditions for Certificate Services (formerly called End User Agreements), Relying Party Agreements also in accordance with the new...
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New CA release 4.7
A new CA release 4.7 was rolled out on Monday. This release includes some extensions, e.g. the possibility of adding a domain free of charge to an existing Managed PKI.
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Code Signing certificates with a validity time of 5 years are no longer available
The purchase of CodeSigning certificates with a maximum validity term of 5 years will be no longer possible within the web shop and the Managed PKI.
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SwissSign: Planned Maintenance work on Wednesday 12 July 2017 from 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Dear SwissSign customers, partners and people interested in SwissSign, Our website www.swisssign.com is unfortunately unavailable on Wednesday 12 July 2017 from 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm because...
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Maintenance work on July 3, 6pm-12pm
We want to draw your attention to maintenance work caused by update to our new release which will be carried out on Monday, July 3, 6:00 pm to 12:00 pm (Release 4.7).
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Certificate Transparency for all SSL certificates
All SSL certificates will be added to the Certificate Transparency Logs.
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Tests for CAA are ongoing
CAA stands for Certification Authority Authorization and specifies within a DNS entry which certification authority may issue a certificate for a domain entry
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Phase out of SSL certificates with 3 years validity
3-year SSL certificates can be applied only before the March, 1st 2018
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CT Log SSL Gold EV: Now also with precertificate!
SwissSign now offers the possibility of an SCT entry in the certificate (Precertificate) for the certificate issuance of SSL EV Gold Certificates. This is especially useful for older...
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Unsecure SHA-1 certificates
End of February it was possible to produce two different documents with the same SHA-1 hash . It is now also practically shown that the use of the SHA-1 algorithm represents a concrete...
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HTTPS necessary for password fields
Password entry fields will be recognized by browsers soon. Browsers will warn users if the corresponding page is not encrypted (https)
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Time stamp service (TSA) with secured TLS connection
SwissSigns offers currently its time stamp service (TSA) via URL http://tsa.swisssign.net. You have now also the possibility to request timestamps via a secured TLS connection by using...
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