Set up USB-token

Set up USB-token

Before you can use your token for signing, three more steps are required to turn this SIGN8 USB-eToken into your personal token:

Step 1: Installing the token software on your PC

Step 2: Initialisation of the USB eToken

Step 3: Collecting the certificate and importing the certificate onto the USB-eToken


Installing the token software

To manage your eToken, you must install the associated token software.

Please note that the token should only be connected to the computer after the software has been installed.

The following steps must be carried out to install the SafeNet software:

Step 1: Download the SafeNet Token Authentication Client Installer: https://sign8.eu/download/etoken

Step 2: Double-click on the MSI installation file and start the installation process: Click on ‘Next’ after you have closed other programmes on your PC

Step 3: Select your desired language and confirm this with ‘Next’.

Step 4: Read and confirm the licence conditions and continue with ‘Next’.

Step 5: Now select an installation location and continue with ‘Next’.

Step 6: In the next step, select ‘typical’ as the installation type. Then click on ‘Next’.

Step 7: The installation starts as soon as you click on ‘Install’.

Step 8: After successful installation, another dialogue window appears, click on ‘Finish’.


Installing the SIGN8 EnrollmentApp

The following steps must be carried out to install the Sign8 Enrolment App:

Step 1: Download the SIGN8 EnrollmentApp here: Downloads - E-Signaturen von SIGN8

Step 2: Double-click on the installation file

Step 3: Tick ‘Start when ready’ and click on ‘Install’



Initialising the USB token

Initialise your token to install the certificate. If you have already initialised your token, skip this step.

Please note: the initialisation process deletes all existing certificates on the token. If the app was already open before the USB stick was inserted, it must be restarted.

Step 1: Connect the USB stick to the USB slot of your PC

Step 2: Open the ‘Sign8 Enrolment App’

Step 3: Click on ‘Initialise token’



Step 4: Read the declaration and then tick the box ‘I have read and understood the declaration.’

Step 5: Click on ‘Continue’

Step 6: Click on the ‘Token*’ area and select your token

Step 7: Enter a name for your token in ‘Token name’

Step 8: Click on ‘Next’



Step 9: Enter your password for the token (tick the box ‘Use default admin password’ so that the password is automatically displayed)

Step 10: Click on ‘Next’

Step 11: Enter your new token password in the ‘New token password*’ field enter your new token password and confirm it by entering it again

Step 12: Enter your new administrator password in the ‘New admin password*’ field enter your new administrator password and confirm it by entering it again


Step 13: Click on ‘Initialise token’ and wait until the process is complete

Step 14: Click on ‘Get certificate’


Collecting the token

If you have skipped the initialisation, please insert your USB stick into the USB port of your device before opening the app.

Step 1: Open the Sign8 Enrolment App

Step 2: Click on ‘Get certificate’




Step 3: Now enter your collection login details and then click on ‘Log in’

Step 4: Click on the ‘Token*’ field and select your token

Step 5: Click on the folder icon in the destination folder field and select your destination folder


Step 6: In the input window that opens, enter the token password you specified during initialisation and click ‘Continue’

Step 7: The certificate is now generated and imported onto the token

Step 8: As soon as you receive the confirmation ‘Your certificate has been successfully created and stored’, you can close the programme and find your certificate in the previously selected destination folder






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