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Electronic signature: several experiences. Fernando Galindo University of Zaragoza, Spain 12th June 2007 Beijing. Summary. The LEFIS context On Electronic Signatures and PKIs An application: the LEFIS virtual campus Conclusion. The LEFIS context. From Europa. Partners. www.lefis.org
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Electronic signature: several experiences Fernando Galindo University of Zaragoza, Spain 12th June 2007 Beijing
Summary • The LEFIS context • On Electronic Signatures and PKIs • An application: the LEFIS virtual campus • Conclusion
Partners • www.lefis.org • 114 institutions • Europa • America • China • India • 255 persons: the information is in the web, but it is not possible to read it without the use of a certificate of public key. This is an example of the use of ciphered information in the web • 260 suscriptors in the distribution list
Last Meetings • Albarracín, Spain, 18th and 19th May 2007, the LEFIS virtual campus desing • Beja, Portugal, 2th May 2007, Encontro Luso-Brasileiro sobre "Prote(c)ção do Consumidor no Comércio Ele(c)trónico" • Istambul,Turkey, 2nd and 3rd February 2007, Information and Communication Technologies: Teaching of e-government • Rovaniemi, Finnland,19th and 20th January 2007,The LEFIS Teaching in the Faculties of Law • Vilnius, Lithuania, 13th and 14th April 2007, The Teaching of Management, e-business and e-comerce
Next Meetings • Jaca, Spain,26th - 27th July, Segundo encuentro ibero latinoamericano sobre Gobierno electrónico e inclusión digital • Reykjavik, Iceland, 13th -14th July, Legal informatics and egovernance as tools for the knowledge Society • Santa Catarina, Brasil, 27th -28th June, Primeiro Encontro ibero latino americano de governo electronico e inclusao digital
Projects in activity and evaluation • PRIME: Privacy and Identification Management • GERSOCO: Governance and regulation estrategies for the knowledge society • EGOBS: Observatory of electronic government • Law&Ict shared virtual campus • Legis: intensive programme on legal aspects of information society • Lefis-wide: making known the LEFIS network • Data protection and electronic signatures: a prototype, a practice code and a theory • Lawful interception in Ip networks, Guidelines for potential policy Amendments.- LIGA
On electronic signature and PKIs • Rules • The construction of PKIs • It is difficult to go to the praxis • The development and use of PKIs by LEFIS • Private area • Public administrations
Rules • Aequitas hypothesis as departure point • The Admission as Evidence in Trials of Penal Character of Electronic Products Signed Digitally • http://cordis.europa.eu/infosec/src/study11.htm • July 1998 • European Directive on electronic signature (2000) • Preparatory works • Spanish regulation on electronic signature (1999) • Preparatory works • LEX NET, Spanish regulation on telematic transmission of documents in the Administration of Justice (26th January 2007),as example of rules • Electronic Administration, Proposal of Law: the spanish Congress has approved the project. The Senate must approve the Law in next months
The construction of PKIs • Past experience in he construction of PKIs • FESTE: from 1997 • Notaries • Procurators: from 1997 • Justice Administration • Property registers: from 2000 • Identification to access to the Registers • European PKI with juridical institutions • Project AEQUITAS. Trust frame for electronic documents exchange between european judicial operators. Information Society technologies. IST-2000-29569
It is difficult to go to the praxis • Scarce PKIs function in Europa • There are solutions in e-Government: • Payment of taxes • Consults to information on affiliation to the Social Security • Reference in IDABC (Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens): http://europa.eu.int/idabc/ • Future several proofs, thanks to the promotion of the use of Electronic National Identity Cards: Spain, Belgium, Finnland...
The development and use of PKIs by LEFIS • Our recent experience • Private area • Public Administrations
Private area • APTICE • Non governmental organization • Advanced electronic signature: PKI • https://pki.lefis.org • Acces to contents of web pages and to learning resources • 160 certificates • Number of access using public keys from February 2007 to concrete learning resources • 4500+1250+1360
Public administrations • Lefis.unizar.es/pki • Applied research project • Use of own certificates • Use of Electronic National Identitiy Card • Access to Public Administration pages • Foreseen example: the LEFIS virtual campus
An example • The LEFIS virtual campus step by step
Virtual campus partners • AR LA PLATA.- Argentina • BR SANTA CATARINA.- Brasil • DE UNIMUENSTER.- Germany • ES ULL.- Spain • ES UNIZAR.- Spain • FI ULAPLAND.- Finland • FI UWASA.- Finland • LT MRUNI.- Lithuania • PL UMK.- Poland • PT IPBEJA .- Portugal • TR ISIKUN.- Turky • UK QUEENS.- UK • OPEN TO NEW INTERESTED PARTNERS
Step 1.- The experience, this year • Spanish students have in “Administracion electronica” teachers from Spain, Brasil and Argentina during 2006-2007: from February until June • The same begins with brasilean and argentinian students during 2007: from June until December • Blended system: traditional and on line learning systems • Joint examinations • Government support (Brasilean and Spanish)
Step 3.- The books: the LEFIS Serie, and the common infrastructure • English book, published in JILT (Journal of Information and Law Technology) • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2005_2-3/ • Spanish Book • It is in the LEFIS Web page, only for owners of the LEFIS private-public key • Privacy, first book of the LEFIS Serie in preparation (deadline 15th June) • It will be included also in the LEFIS Web page: Access by public key • On line teaching in the Faculties of Law: second book • Joint courses in the LEFIS Web: A page for the LEFIS Virtual campus (in outcomes) • Participants from different Universities, teachers and students • Teachers and students need to use the LEFIS public-private key • Instructions to generate and obtain the key • https://pki.lefis.org/
Step 3.- The collaboration: the joint courses • The professors as collaborators of the teaching in concrete authorized courses by the respective University • Graduate and postgraduate level • Old courses, first • New courses, later • Assesment made also by the collaborating professors
Step 4.- The joint Diploms • Last objective • At least at graduate level • From academic course 2007-2008 • Blended modality • Diploms for the matriculated student in ordinary lectures, acknowledged by the own University • Initialy by the signatures of the teachers • Later by the own University organization • Postgraduate level also • From academic course 2008-2009: • Master in LEFIS with several specialities: the application must be made by end January 2008 • The proposal to the University is to made a Master (60 credits, blended and on line modality) promoted by LEFIS • The partners will be all the interested LEFIS partners, specially the participants in the LEFIS Virtual Campus application • The students ought pay the real cost of the inmatriculation in the Master • The price will be adequate to the requirements of every University • As soon as possible we shall require the neccesary documents from the partners Universities to agree on the basic common rules related with title, contents and organizative question
Step 5.- Erasmus programme • The interchange of teachers and students is possible in Europa and America by Erasmus programme and another new programmes: old ALFA for example • 22 Erasmus students this year in the Faculty of Law of Zaragoza, coming from the LEFIS Universities partners • If the application to the virtual campus is sucessful the procedure will be improved with support to the formation of new teachers and organization and difussion meetings, • But this is an added: the system functions as real example of application of e signatures!
Conclusion • Recent rules based on e signature exist • There are not yet enough active PKIs • The Government institutions support several PKIs or only one (the last is a bad solution) • It is neccesary to made real proofs attending to concrete present and future problems • LEFIS has experience in real proofs