Multiple electronic signatures on multiple documents

Antonio Lioy, Gianluca Ramunno

2004

Abstract

European, international and Internet standards are available to support electronic signatures. The most common signature formats are defined via the ASN.1 syntax with DER encoding, or the XML language. Furthermore PDF is a widespread document format with support for e-signatures. Application of signatures to e-documents must consider several aspects: long term signature validity, non-repudiation, qualified certificates, and many others. This paper focuses on the relationships among multiple documents and multiple signatures and analyses the support provided by current formats to this problem. Where lack of standardization or standard profiling is found, a proposal is made towards better application of e-signatures.

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in Harvard Style

Lioy A. and Ramunno G. (2004). Multiple electronic signatures on multiple documents . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004) ISBN 972-8865-17-1, pages 24-34. DOI: 10.5220/0001405300240034


in Bibtex Style

@conference{egcdmas04,
author={Antonio Lioy and Gianluca Ramunno},
title={Multiple electronic signatures on multiple documents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={24-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001405300240034},
isbn={972-8865-17-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004)
TI - Multiple electronic signatures on multiple documents
SN - 972-8865-17-1
AU - Lioy A.
AU - Ramunno G.
PY - 2004
SP - 24
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0001405300240034