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International organizations and institutions
Forum of the supervisory and accreditation bodies from EU, EEA and EU-candidate countries
Information on electronic signatures
Publication of the notifications according to Art. 11 of the Signature Directive
Jos Dumortier et. al.: The Legal and Market Aspects of Electronic Signatures
Federal Office of Communications
Swiss accreditation body
German supervisory authority
German notified body
German notified body
German notified body
Danish supervisory authority
Spanish supervisory authority
Finnish supervisory authority
French supervisory authority
Greek supervisory authority
Hungarian supervisory authority
IE: Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Ressources
Irish supervisory authority
IS: Neytendastofa
Icelandic supervisory authority
IT: CNIPA
Italian supervisory authority
LU: OLAS
Supervisory authority of Luxembourg
NL: OPTA
Supervisory authority of the Netherlands
NO: Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
Norwegian supervisory authority
PT: ICP
Information about electronic signatures in Portugal
SE: National Post and Telecom Agency
Swedish supervisory authority
SE: SWEDAC
Swedish accreditation body
UK: Department of Trade and Industry
British supervisory authority
UK: tScheme
British accreditation scheme
US: Federal PKI Steering Committee
Austrian institutions
Secure Information Technology Center – Austria (notified body)
All Austrian certification service providers that have reported their activities to the supervisory authority
Staff office for the federal IT strategy (Federal Chancellery)
Information about the Austrian citizen card
e-Government
Official information about e-Government in Austria on federal, regional and local level
cyberDOC
Electronic archive of Austrian notaries
Manufacturers
The following links refer to manufacturers who produce (amongst other products) components for secure electronic signatures. If you want to know which components can be used for creation of secure electronic signatures within which certification-service, please refer to the recommendations issued by the certification-service-providers for the respective certification-service.
Manufacturer of the viewers MBS-Sign and hot:Sign
Manufacturer of keyboards with integrated chip card readers
Manufacturer of the viewer trustview
Manufacturer of the chip card terminals Kobil KAAN Professional and Kobil KAAN Standard Plus
Manufacturer of various chip card terminals (cyberJack pinpad, cyberJack e-com, ...)
Manufacturer of the chip card terminals SPR532 (also sold as: Towitoko CHIPDRIVE pinpad)
Manufacturer of the viewer SecSigner
IT security assessment standards
Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria
Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation
US standard regarding Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules
Successor of FIPS 140-1
Technical information and standards
Collection of standards about the internet X.509 public key infrastructure
Internet standards. Especially important for signatures are RFC 2587 and 2589 (LDAP), RFC 2560 (OCSP), RFC 3279 (Algorithms and Identifiers), RFC 3280 (X.509), RFC 3647 (Certification Practice Statement), and RFC 3739 (Qualified Certificate Profile)
Protection profiles in the context of SSCD
ETSI ESITechnical Workshop SEC(urity) within the EESSI framework
Code of practice for Information Security Management
German standard for security in information technology
FIPS 180-2
Secure Hash Standard
FIPS 186-4
Digital Signature Standard
S/MIME
S/MIME-standard for signed and encrypted e-mail
SSL
Secure Socket Layer
TLS
Transport Layer Security