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Standards and certifications

STANDARDS, COMPENDIA, WORKS

Standards or references
ISO/CEI 9796-2 - October 2002
Information technology. Security techniques. Digital signature schemes giving message recovery. Part 2: hash function based mechanisms.

ISO/CEI 9796-3 - April 2000
Information technology - Security techniques - Digital signature schemes giving message recovery – part 3: discrete logarithm based mechanisms

ISO/TR 17944 - August 2002
Banking – Security and other financial services
Framework for security in financial systems ISO/IEC 14888

WAES01 - Cen workshop agreements on Electronic Signatures Information society standardisation system.

NF Z42-013; Z42-013 - December 2001
Electronic archiving - Specifications relative to the design and operation of information processing systems in view of ensuring the storage and integrity of the documents stored in these systems.

Works
3484212 - September 2000
Electronic archiving – technical and legal aspects.

REGULATIONS

Directive n° 1999/93/CE of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures.

Commission Decision of 14 July 2003 on the publication of reference numbers of generally recognised standards for electronic signature products in accordance with Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE

What about application of the electronic signature ?

With the development of electronic commerce has arisen the need to create a harmonised legal framework for implementing electronic signatures in EU Member States. Hence European Directive No.1999/93/EC of 13 December 1999 which was transposed into French law by Law No.2000-230 of 13 March 2000 and its implementing decree (Decree No.2001-272 of 30 March 2001).

The electronic signature has the same probative value as a signature in paper form if it meets two conditions, authentication and integrity :
Its author must be able to be identified reliably.

In addition, the document to which it refers must be drafted and kept in conditions that guarantee its integrity.

The decree sets out the technical conditions for ensuring process reliability in the eyes of the law.

When an electronic signature is certified it enjoys a presumption of authenticity, otherwise it constitutes only a commencement of proof.

In addition to putting in place the legislative framework, the standardisation institutes have also achieved the following :
The ISO has drafted a number of documents at international level.
A workshop on the electronic signature has been set up by the CEN, European Committee for Standardisation.