Section 40 of The Information Technology Act, 2000 View Chapter 8

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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Footnote -

1. The word "then" omitted by notification No. S.O. 1015(E) (w.e.f. 19-9-2002).

2. Subs. ibid., for "the key" (w.e.f. 19-9-2002).