Electronic signature: several experiences
Fernando Galindo University of Zaragoza, Spain
12th June 2007
Beijing
Summary
The LEFIS contextOn Electronic Signatures and PKIsAn application: the LEFIS virtual campusConclusion
The LEFIS context
From Europa
Partners
www.lefis.org 114 institutions
Europa America China India
255 persons: the information is in the web, but it is not possible to read it without the use of a certificate of public key. This is an example of the use of ciphered information in the web
260 suscriptors in the distribution list
Last Meetings
Albarracín, Spain, 18th and 19th May 2007, the LEFIS virtual campus desing
Beja, Portugal, 2th May 2007, Encontro Luso-Brasileiro sobre "Prote(c)ção do Consumidor no Comércio Ele(c)trónico"
Istambul,Turkey, 2nd and 3rd February 2007, Information and Communication Technologies: Teaching of e-government
Rovaniemi, Finnland,19th and 20th January 2007,The LEFIS Teaching in the Faculties of Law
Vilnius, Lithuania, 13th and 14th April 2007, The Teaching of Management, e-business and e-comerce
Next Meetings
Jaca, Spain,26th - 27th July, Segundo encuentro ibero latinoamericano sobre Gobierno electrónico e inclusión digital
Reykjavik, Iceland, 13th -14th July, Legal informatics and egovernance as tools for the knowledge Society
Santa Catarina, Brasil, 27th -28th June, Primeiro Encontro ibero latino americano de governo electronico e inclusao digital
Projects in activity and evaluation
PRIME: Privacy and Identification Management GERSOCO: Governance and regulation estrategies
for the knowledge society EGOBS: Observatory of electronic government Law&Ict shared virtual campus Legis: intensive programme on legal aspects of
information society Lefis-wide: making known the LEFIS network Data protection and electronic signatures: a prototype,
a practice code and a theory Lawful interception in Ip networks, Guidelines for
potential policy Amendments.- LIGA
On electronic signature and PKIs
RulesThe construction of PKIsIt is difficult to go to the praxisThe development and use of PKIs by
LEFISPrivate area Public administrations
Rules
Aequitas hypothesis as departure point The Admission as Evidence in Trials of Penal Character of Electronic
Products Signed Digitally http://cordis.europa.eu/infosec/src/study11.htm July 1998
European Directive on electronic signature (2000) Preparatory works
Spanish regulation on electronic signature (1999) Preparatory works
LEX NET, Spanish regulation on telematic transmission of documents in the Administration of Justice (26th January 2007),as example of rules
Electronic Administration, Proposal of Law: the spanish Congress has approved the project. The Senate must approve the Law in next months
The construction of PKIs
Past experience in he construction of PKIs FESTE: from 1997
Notaries
Procurators: from 1997 Justice Administration
Property registers: from 2000 Identification to access to the Registers
European PKI with juridical institutions Project AEQUITAS. Trust frame for electronic documents
exchange between european judicial operators. Information Society technologies. IST-2000-29569
It is difficult to go to the praxis
Scarce PKIs function in Europa There are solutions in e-Government:
Payment of taxes Consults to information on affiliation to the Social
Security Reference in IDABC (Interoperable Delivery of European
eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens): http://europa.eu.int/idabc/
Future several proofs, thanks to the promotion of the use of Electronic National Identity Cards: Spain, Belgium, Finnland...
The development and use of PKIs by LEFIS
Our recent experiencePrivate areaPublic Administrations
Private area
APTICE Non governmental organization Advanced electronic signature: PKI https://pki.lefis.org Acces to contents of web pages and to learning
resources 160 certificates Number of access using public keys from February
2007 to concrete learning resources 4500+1250+1360
Public administrations
Lefis.unizar.es/pkiApplied research projectUse of own certificatesUse of Electronic National Identitiy CardAccess to Public Administration pagesForeseen example: the LEFIS virtual
campus
An example
The LEFIS virtual campus step by step
Virtual campus partners
AR LA PLATA.- Argentina BR SANTA CATARINA.- Brasil DE UNIMUENSTER.- Germany ES ULL.- Spain ES UNIZAR.- Spain FI ULAPLAND.- Finland FI UWASA.- Finland LT MRUNI.- Lithuania PL UMK.- Poland PT IPBEJA .- Portugal TR ISIKUN.- Turky UK QUEENS.- UK OPEN TO NEW INTERESTED PARTNERS
Step 1.- The experience, this year
Spanish students have in “Administracion electronica” teachers from Spain, Brasil and Argentina during 2006-2007: from February until June
The same begins with brasilean and argentinian students during 2007: from June until December
Blended system: traditional and on line learning systems
Joint examinations Government support (Brasilean and Spanish)
Step 3.- The books: the LEFIS Serie, and the common infrastructure
English book, published in JILT (Journal of Information and Law Technology)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2005_2-3/ Spanish Book
It is in the LEFIS Web page, only for owners of the LEFIS private-public key Privacy, first book of the LEFIS Serie in preparation (deadline 15th June)
It will be included also in the LEFIS Web page: Access by public key On line teaching in the Faculties of Law: second book Joint courses in the LEFIS Web: A page for the LEFIS Virtual campus (in
outcomes) Participants from different Universities, teachers and students
Teachers and students need to use the LEFIS public-private key Instructions to generate and obtain the key
https://pki.lefis.org/
Step 3.- The collaboration: the joint courses
The professors as collaborators of the teaching in concrete authorized courses by the respective University
Graduate and postgraduate levelOld courses, firstNew courses, later
Assesment made also by the collaborating professors
Step 4.- The joint Diploms
Last objective At least at graduate level
From academic course 2007-2008 Blended modality Diploms for the matriculated student in ordinary lectures, acknowledged by the
own University Initialy by the signatures of the teachers Later by the own University organization
Postgraduate level also From academic course 2008-2009:
Master in LEFIS with several specialities: the application must be made by end January 2008
The proposal to the University is to made a Master (60 credits, blended and on line modality) promoted by LEFIS
The partners will be all the interested LEFIS partners, specially the participants in the LEFIS Virtual Campus application
The students ought pay the real cost of the inmatriculation in the Master The price will be adequate to the requirements of every University As soon as possible we shall require the neccesary documents from the partners
Universities to agree on the basic common rules related with title, contents and organizative question
Step 5.- Erasmus programme
The interchange of teachers and students is possible in Europa and America by Erasmus programme and another new programmes: old ALFA for example 22 Erasmus students this year in the Faculty of Law of
Zaragoza, coming from the LEFIS Universities partners If the application to the virtual campus is sucessful the
procedure will be improved with support to the formation of new teachers and organization and difussion meetings,
But this is an added: the system functions as real example of application of e signatures!
Conclusion
Recent rules based on e signature exist There are not yet enough active PKIs The Government institutions support several
PKIs or only one (the last is a bad solution) It is neccesary to made real proofs attending
to concrete present and future problems LEFIS has experience in real proofs
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