Lawyers
Applies to: Hungary
Encrypted file exchange for law firms
Documents for clients, colleagues or experts – sent encrypted, with proof of when they were downloaded.
- Developed & operated in Germany
- End-to-end encrypted
- Professional secrecy in our contract
- Signed proofs of delivery
What your professional rules require
Anyone who, without good reason, discloses a private secret learned through their profession or a public mandate is liable to confinement (elzárás); if the disclosure causes significant harm to interests, to imprisonment of up to one year.
The lawyer’s duty of confidentiality does not apply towards persons who store, archive or keep data carriers or process data, nor towards data processors, in each case to the extent necessary. The Act does not require the client’s consent for this; consent is required only for other contributors under point c).
By law, the duty of confidentiality also extends to the persons referred to in section 10(4), including providers of storage and data processing services.
The lawyer instructs the persons involved in their work about the duty of confidentiality in an appropriate manner.
How TEPHIA SECURE meets them
Contractual confidentiality
In clause 5b, our data processing agreement commits us to secrecy, limits access to what the service requires and binds everyone involved in writing. You conclude it electronically and receive a copy as a PDF. If data is seized or its disclosure is demanded, we inform you without delay so that you can assert professional secrecy.
State of the art
AES-256-GCM encryption in the sender’s browser, with the key derived from the password using Argon2id. The server holds no key and cannot read the contents.
No account needed for recipients
Recipients do not need an account. Clients and third parties can send you documents through an upload box, with the same protection and the same proof of delivery.
Verifiable proof of delivery
Each entry is cryptographically chained to the previous one. The proof of delivery is a signed PDF/A with a timestamp from an independent time-stamping authority. TEPHIA is not an archive for your case files: files are deleted when their retention period ends, so move them into your own records system.
How your proofs are secured
| In every planSignature with our certificate | Add-on · coming soonQualified electronic seal | |
|---|---|---|
| Any change to the PDF invalidates the signature | included | included |
| Timestamp from an independent authority | included | included |
| Hash chain with daily chain seal | included | included |
| Checksum (SHA-256) of every file, confirmed by the recipient | included | included |
| Verifiable online, without an account | included | included |
| Display in Adobe Reader | “Validity unknown”1 | Valid |
| Legal presumption of authenticity (Art. 35(2) eIDAS) | not included | included |
| Useful for | Your records, clients | Courts, authorities, the other party |
1 Not an error: our certificate is not on the EU trust list that Reader recognises. You can check integrity online or using the certificate fingerprint.
- Signature: any change is detected
- Timestamp from an independent authority
- Hash chain with daily chain seal
- Checksum of every file, confirmed by the recipient
- Verifiable online, without an account
- Adobe Reader shows “Valid” instead of “Validity unknown”
- Legal presumption of authenticity (Art. 35(2) eIDAS)
- Useful for courts, authorities, the other party
There is no certification of services like this by a professional body, and carefully selecting a service provider remains your responsibility under your professional rules.
The information on the legal position on this page is general information, without any warranty as to completeness or currency, and does not constitute legal advice. Only our contracts are binding.