Signature Creation and Validation Service


"eGov-Bus is funded by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies priority of the Sixth Framework Programme"

Motivation

Within eGovernment processes creating and validating digital signatures play an important role. Therefore eGov-Bus is providing adequate support for the creation and validation of signatures via a signature creation and validation web service. This service addresses following security requirement:

  • Users, APG (advanced process generator), and Government applications want data to be signed, and may want data to be signed in a legally relevant way.

Description

The signature creation and validation service (SCVS) is based on modules of an Austrian eGovernment open source program and extends these basic modules by XAdES capabilities and CMS signature creation. These extensions are based on well-established standard like CMS ([RFC 3369]) and XMLDSIG signatures [XMLDSIG]. Furthermore XAdES signatures ([XADES]) and XAdES profile for eGovernment according to [XADESProfiles] are used.The following table lists the features of the signature creation service:

Signature Checks
CMS Creates an CMS signature
XMLDSIG Creates an XMLDSIG signature
XAdES-BES Creates an XAdES-BES signature
XAdES-T Creates an XAdES-T signature


In the following table features of the signature validation service are listed. The validation process includes the whole signature validation and the generation of XAdES signatures according to [XADES]:

Signature Checks Generator
CMS Validation of a CMS signature -
XMLDSIG Validation of an XMLDSIG signature -
XAdES-BES Validation of an XAdES-BES XAdES-T
XAdES-T Validation of an XAdES-T XAdES-T
XAdES-C Validation of an XAdES-C XAdES-X
XAdES-X Validation of an XAdES-X XAdES-X

 

Downloads

Please note the open source license terms.

Title Version Date
Specification
(Specification of the signature creation and validation service)		 1.0.0 2007-05-07
Documentation
(Documentation including installation, configuration, usage, XSD schemas and WSDL file)		 1.1.0 2007-10-11
SCVS XSD Schemas and WSDL file
(XSD Schemas and WSDL file for separate download)		 1.0.0 2007-05-07
SCVS Release 1.1.0 2007-10-11
Source Code 1.0.0 2007-09-03

History

Remark Version Date
SCVS Release V.1.0.0
1.0.0
 2007-09-03
Documentation V.1.0.0
(Documentation including installation, configuration, usage, XSD schemas and WSDL file)
1.0.0
 2007-09-03

SCVS Release V.0.9.0
Release including:

  • SCVS Web service
  • Documentation
  • Pre configured Tomcat

Features of the Web service:

  • Creation and Verification of CMS signatures
    • Verification is fully available.
    • Creation needs some extension, so there is actually a dummy response created, but for integration tests it will suffice (for further information see “usage” within the documentation).
  • Creation and Verification of XMLDSIG/XAdES signatures
    • Creation and Verification of XMLDSIG and XAdES-BES is fully available.
    • Creation and Verification of XAdES-T/-C/-X still needs some extensions, but as for the CMS signature creation dummy response are generated and will suffice for testing (for further information see "usage" within the documentation).
0.9.0
 2007-07-16

 

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