Links
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International organizations and institutions
Forum of European Supervisory Authorities for Electronic Signatures (FESA)
Forum of the supervisory and accreditation bodies from EU, EEA and EU-candidate countries
i2010 - Lisbon Strategy - Electronic Signatures
Information on electronic signatures
EU: Notifications
Publication of the notifications according to Art. 11 of the Signature Directive
EU: Study for the European Commission
Jos Dumortier et. al.: The Legal and Market Aspects of Electronic Signatures
CH: OFCOM
Federal Office of Communications
CH: Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and Accreditation
Swiss accreditation body
DE: Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Postal Services
German supervisory authority
DE: Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI)
German notified body
DE: TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH
German notified body
DE: T-Systems GEI GmbH (was: debisZERT)
German notified body
DK: ITST
Danish supervisory authority
ES: SETSI
Spanish supervisory authority
FI: FICORA
Finnish supervisory authority
FR: DCSSI
French supervisory authority
GR: EETT
Greek supervisory authority
HU: NHH
Hungarian supervisory authority
IE: Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Ressources
Irish supervisory authority
IS: Neytendastofa
Icelandic supervisory authority
IT: CNIPA
Italian supervisory authority
LU: OLAS
Supervisory authority of Luxembourg
NL: OPTA
Supervisory authority of the Netherlands
NO: Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
Norwegian supervisory authority
PT: ICP
Information about electronic signatures in Portugal
SE: National Post and Telecom Agency
Swedish supervisory authority
SE: SWEDAC
Swedish accreditation body
UK: Department of Trade and Industry
British supervisory authority
UK: tScheme
British accreditation scheme
Austrian institutions
A-SIT
Secure Information Technology Center – Austria (notified body)
Certification-service-providers
All Austrian certification service providers that have reported their activities to the supervisory authority
Chief Information Office
Staff office for the federal IT strategy (Federal Chancellery)
Citizen Card
Information about the Austrian citizen card
e-Government
Official information about e-Government in Austria on federal, regional and local level
cyberDOC
Electronic archive of Austrian notaries
Manufacturers
The following links refer to manufacturers who produce (amongst other products) components for secure electronic signatures. If you want to know which components can be used for creation of secure electronic signatures within which certification-service, please refer to the recommendations issued by the certification-service-providers for the respective certification-service.
BDC EDV-Consulting GmbH
Manufacturer of the viewers MBS-Sign and hot:Sign
Cherry GmbH
Manufacturer of keyboards with integrated chip card readers
IT Solution GmbH
Manufacturer of the viewer trustview
Kobil Systems GmbH
Manufacturer of the chip card terminals Kobil KAAN Professional and Kobil KAAN Standard Plus
Reiner Kartengeräte GmbH & Co. KG
Manufacturer of various chip card terminals (cyberJack pinpad, cyberJack e-com, ...)
SCM Microsystems GmbH
Manufacturer of the chip card terminals SPR532 (also sold as: Towitoko CHIPDRIVE pinpad)
SecCommerce Informationssysteme GmbH
Manufacturer of the viewer SecSigner
IT security assessment standards
ITSEC
Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria
Common Criteria
Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation
FIPS 140-1
US standard regarding Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules
FIPS 140-2
Successor of FIPS 140-1
Technical information and standards
IETF PKIX
Collection of standards about the internet X.509 public key infrastructure
Internet RFCs
Internet standards. Especially important for signatures are RFC 2587 and 2589 (LDAP), RFC 2560 (OCSP), RFC 3279 (Algorithms and Identifiers), RFC 3280 (X.509), RFC 3647 (Certification Practice Statement), and RFC 3739 (Qualified Certificate Profile)
EESSI – European Electronic Signature Standardisation Initiative
Currently the most important european standardization body for electronic signatures
CEN/ISSS
Electronic Signatures Workshop within the EESSI framework
ETSI SEC
Technical Workshop SEC(urity) within the EESSI framework
BS 7799 (ISO/IEC 17799)
Code of practice for Information Security Management
BSI: IT-Grundschutzhandbuch (IT Baseline Protection Manual)
German standard for security in information technology
FIPS 180-2
Secure Hash Standard
FIPS 186-4
Digital Signature Standard
S/MIME
S/MIME-standard for signed and encrypted e-mail
SSL
Secure Socket Layer
TLS
Transport Layer Security