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Electronic Signature Policies
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group J. Ross
Request for Comments: 3125 Security & Standards
Category: Experimental D. Pinkas
Integris
N. Pope
Security & Standards
September 2001
Electronic Signature Policies
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines signature policies for electronic signatures. A
signature policy is a set of rules for the creation and validation of
an electronic signature, under which the validity of signature can be
determined. A given legal/contractual context may recognize a
particular signature policy as meeting its requirements.
A signature policy has a globally unique reference, which is bound to
an electronic signature by the signer as part of the signature
calculation.
The signature policy needs to be available in human readable form so
that it can be assessed to meet the requirements of the legal and
contractual context in which it is being applied.
To allow for the automatic processing of an electronic signature
another part of the signature policy specifies the electronic rules
for the creation and validation of the electronic signature in a
computer processable form. In the current document the format of the
signature policy is defined using ASN.1.
The contents of this document is based on the signature policy
defined in ETSI TS 101 733 V.1.2.2 (2000-12) Copyright (C).
Individual copies of this ETSI deliverable can be downloaded from
http://www.etsi.org.
Ross, et al. Experimental