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Mark Erlich, head of the electronic identity department at RIA, said that the terms of the agreement with SK ID Solutions, the provider of the Smart-ID service, were agreed upon last year, after which work to develop Smart-ID support for the ID software began. 

"We have had good cooperation with RIA, and this is a nice birthday present for Smart-ID that has just turned three. We are also glad that RIA has taken into use an additional security measure, meaning that in signing with Smart-ID the app asks the user to choose the right one from among three check codes -- this will encourage also other e-services to adopt it," Liisa Lukin, manager for value added services at SK ID Solutions, said. 

Digital signatures can be given with DigiDoc4 by those users of Smart-ID who created their account after Nov. 8, 2018.

The reason for this is that starting from that date, Smart-ID was introduced on the list of qualified electronic signature creation devices. Users who have created their account earlier must delete their Smart-ID account and create a new one in  order to be able to start signing documents with Smart-ID.

Non-corporate entities can sign documents in reasonable numbers via DigiDoc4 using a Smart-ID. Corporate customers are required to conclude an agreement with SK ID Solutions for the use of Smart-ID via DigiDoc4. With default settings, documents can be signed using a Smart-ID only by holders of an Estonian personal identification code.

Users who have concluded an agreement with the service provider can also sign documents with a Latvian or a Lithuanian personal identification code.

The recently completed software is also the last version of the software that supports the older operating systems Windows 7 and macOS 10.11. 

RIA's DigiDoc mobile app does not support Smart-ID at this point.