American Bar Association
Section of Science and Technology
Information Security Committee

Digital Signature Guidelines
Table of Contents

100pp. Paper.
ISBN: 1-57073-250-7
Product Code: 5450012

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I. Introduction

The Information Security Committee

Digital Signature Guidelines - Editorial Committee Members
Digital Signature Guidelines - Contributing Members


Tutorial

Signatures and the Law
How Digital Signature Technology Works
Public Key Certificates
Challenges and Opportunities

II. Digital Signature Guidelines

Introduction to the Guidelines

Content and Style
Caveats


Text of Digital Signature Guidelines

Part 1:Definitions
1.1 Accept a certificate
1.2 Ancillary services
1.3 Asymmetric cryptosystem
1.4 Authentication
1.5 Certificate
1.6 Certification authority
1.7 Certification authority certificate
1.8 Certification practice statement
1.9 Confirm
1.10 Correspond
1.11 Digital signature
1.12 Hash function
1.13 Hash result
1.14 Hold a private key
1.15 Incorporate by reference
1.16 Issue a certificate
1.17 Key pair
1.18 Message
1.19 Message integrity
1.20 Nonrepudiation
1.21 Notify 1.22 Operational period of a certificate
1.23 Person
1.24 Private key
1.25 Public key
1.26 Publish
1.27 Relying party
1.28 Repository
1.29 Revoke a certificate
1.30 Signer
1.31 Subscriber
1.32 Suspend a certificate
1.33 Time-stamp
1.34 Transactional certificate
1.35 Trustworthy system
1.36 Valid certificate
1.37 Verify a digital signature and message integrity


Part 2:General Principles
2.1 Interpretation
2.2 Variation by agreement
2.3 Reliance on certificates foreseeable
2.4 Fiduciary relationship


Part 3:Certification Authorities
3.1 Certification authority must use trustworthy systems
3.2 Disclosure
3.3 Financial responsibility
3.4 Employees and contractors
3.5 Records
3.6 Availability of the certification authority certificate
3.7 Certification authority's representations in certificate
3.8 Prerequisites to disclosure of certificate
3.9 Suspension of certificate at subscriber's request
3.10 Revocation of certificate at subscriber's request
3.11 Revocation or suspension without the subscriber's consent
3.12 Notice of suspension or revocation
3.13 Termination of business with minimal disruption
3.14 Liability of complying certification authority


Part 4:Subscribers
4.1 Generating the key pair
4.2 Subscriber's obligations
4.3 Safeguarding the private key
4.4 Initiating suspension or revocation


Part 5:Relying on certificates and digital signatures
5.1 Digitally signed message is written
5.2 Satisfaction of signature requirements
5.3 Unreliable digital signatures
5.4 Reasonableness of reliance
5.5 Digitally signed originals and copies
5.6 Presumptions in dispute resolution

IV. Bibliography

V. Index

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