# Signature and Certification Processing Time

<div id="bkmrk-objective" style="text-align: justify;">**Objective**</div><div id="bkmrk-" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk--1" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk-set-clear-expectatio" style="text-align: justify;">Set clear expectations for how long signing and certification operations should take.</div><div id="bkmrk--2" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk--3" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk-guidelines" style="text-align: justify;">**Guidelines**</div><div id="bkmrk--4" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk-under-normal-operati" style="text-align: justify;">Under normal operating conditions, a signature or certification operation is expected to complete within this range:</div><div id="bkmrk--5" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk--6" style="padding-left: 80px; text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk-expected-processing-" style="text-align: justify;">**Expected processing time**</div><div id="bkmrk--7" style="padding-left: 80px; text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk--8" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div id="bkmrk-minimum-about-300-mi" style="text-align: justify;">**Minimum** about 300 milliseconds (0.3 seconds)</div><div id="bkmrk-maximum-about-1.5-se" style="text-align: justify;">**Maximum** about 1.5 seconds</div>- Treat this range as the normal processing window for signing and certification.
- If your system regularly takes longer than this, investigate—it may point to an integration, network, or configuration problem.