Formats for long term signatures

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John Ross ross_at_secstan.com Security
Standards Ltd, UK
http//www.securityandstandards.com
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OASIS

• Organization for the Advancement of Structured
  Information Standards
• A member-lead consortium, Focus on applications
  of structured information standards, such as XML.
  
• members of OASIS are suppliers, users,
  organizations, government, individuals and
  industry groups.
• http//www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
• Some of the technical committees which are
  relevant for itans
• DSS, (digital signature services)
• legalXML court filing, e-notary
• DSS home page
• http//www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?w
  g_abbrevdss
• Chairman (s)
• Nick Pope pope_at_secstan.com
• Juan Carlos Cruellas cruellas_at_ac.upc.es

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OASIS DSS

• The TC has recently agreed the following
  Committee Draft specifications
• Digital Signature Service (DSS) Core Protocols,
  Elements and Bindings.
• Supports/uses XMLSig, CMS, TimestampToken (RFC
  3161).
• available at http//docs.oasis-open.org/dss/cd/o
  asis-dss-11.0-core-spec-cd.pdf
• XML Timestamping DSS Profile.
• Defines an XML Timestamp
• available at http//docs.oasis-open.org/ds
  s/cd/oasis-dss-11.0-profiles-timestamping-spec-c
  d.pdf
• The DSS schema is available at
• http//docs.oasis-open.org/dss/cd/oasis-dss-11.0
  -core-schema-cd.xsd.xml

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Other Doc

• Requirement doc
• FAQ
• Other profiles almost nearly ready for
  publication
• Asynchronous operation
• Code signing
• Entity seal
• Electronic Post Mark (EPM)
• German signature law
• Policy wise operation
• Web services security
• XML Advanced Electronic Signature (XAdES)

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Any Questions

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