{"id":130126,"date":"2026-10-22T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=130126"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:09:38","slug":"emudhra-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/emudhra-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"eMudhra Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>eMudhra Limited Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recently formed a special team to investigate the leak of private keys associated with web security certificates issued by Bengaluru-based eMudhra.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About eMudhra Limited<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>Indian digital trust company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that provides digital certificates and services for verifying identities and securing online transactions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>operates as a certificate authority (CA),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an organisation that <\/span><b>issues digital certificates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><b>help websites<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and other entities<\/span><b> prove their identity online.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>digital certificate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works much like an <\/span><b>identity card for a website.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>When someone visits <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a banking <\/span><b>website<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, the <\/span><b>browser checks its certificate to help establish <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that it is connecting to the<\/span><b> genuine website<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rather than an impostor.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CA\u2019s issue these certificates, which browsers use to determine whether a website&#8217;s identity can be trusted.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>eMudhra also provides digital signature certificates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>electronic signing services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that allow <\/span><b>people and businesses to sign documents online.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company is <\/span><b>listed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the<\/span><b> government body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> responsible for<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">licensing and regulating certifying authorities in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>eMudhra <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is also <\/span><b>associated with Aadhaar-linked<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> electronic know-your-customer <\/span><b>(e-KYC) services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, according to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eMudhra is <\/span><b>not the only company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> authorised to <\/span><b>issue digital certificates in India.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>CCA&#8217;s list include<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s other providers such as<\/span><b> Protean, C-DAC, Capricorn and VSign<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their <\/span><b>services vary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but they operate within India&#8217;s regulated digital-signature ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Why Do Websites Need Security Certificates?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When someone visits a website, the browser needs to check that it is connecting to the genuine website and that information exchanged with it is protected from being read or altered by others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where <\/span><b>HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comes in.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>helps secure the connection between a website and a browser using <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a system called <\/span><b>Transport Layer Security (TLS).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>As part of this process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><b> website presents a digital certificate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that helps the browser verify its identity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>digital certificate links<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>website&#8217;s name to a public key<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while the <\/span><b>website keeps <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>matching private key secret<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>browser checks the certificate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to see whether it was issued by an authority it trusts and whether it is valid.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>If these checks succee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">d, the <\/span><b>browser <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can <\/span><b>establish an encrypted connection.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>This helps protect information<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as passwords, payment details and private messages <\/span><b>as they travel across the internet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, a <\/span><b>secure connection does not guarantee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that a <\/span><b>website is legitimate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or that its content is safe.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It helps confirm the website&#8217;s identity and protects information exchanged with it, but a <\/span><b>fraudulent website can also have a valid security certificate.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/industry\/news\/meity-emudhra-private-key-leak-digital-certificates-cert-in-126102200179_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>BS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eMudhra Limited is an Indian digital trust company that provides digital certificates and services for verifying identities and securing online transactions. 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