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A Practical Signature Policy Framework

Author : Jon Ølnes

Published in: ISSE 2013 Securing Electronic Business Processes

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

An electronic signature is always used in a context. In the EU, a lot of emphasis has been placed on legal admissibility of at least qualified signatures, and on standards for technical interoperability of esignatures. The main obstacles to use of esignatures today are probably a lack of mutual understanding of how to use them in a given process (organisational interoperability) and missing specifications on the semantic interpretation (the meaning and implications) of esignatures in the process. A signature policy is a means to specify the conditions for use of esignatures. This paper suggests a framework for specification of practically useful signature policies to simplify interoperability, emphasising that the formation of a single signature policy document for all conditions may not be the best option.

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Metadata
Title
A Practical Signature Policy Framework
Author
Jon Ølnes
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03371-2_9

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