Electronic signature: several experiences

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