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- Elektroniske signaturer i Europa

13.11.2003

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Sist oppdatert: 13/11/03

EU-kommisjonens direktorat for Information Society har nylig publisert rapporten The Legal and Market Aspects of Electronic Signatures. Dette er en 263-siders gjennomgang av de europeiske landenes implementering av EU-direktivet fra 1999 om elektroniske signaturer, både i et juridisk og praktisk perspektiv. Her er et utdrag fra rapportens oppsummering:

"An important question, which needs to be posed, is what the use of electronic signatures in Europe really is? The number of supervised and accredited CSPs issuing Qualified Certificates in the European countries varies considerably from country to country, with many countries having either no or only one CSP. In the few countries where any larger numbers of Qualified Certificates have been issued, this is almost exclusively due to some form or another of government promotion. There is currently no natural market demand for Qualified Certificates and related services. The largest application area in Europe for electronic signatures is generally linked to e-banking applications in a closed user environment, and thus outside the scope of the Directive. Within the scope of the Directive, very few applications are in use today and they are almost completely limited to e-govemment.

It is interesting to note that many application service providers currently on the market falsely believe that their applications require Qualified Electronic Signatures as a minimum in order to be legally compliant, leading to unnecessary costs and complexity on planning and designing for the use of Qualified Electronic Signatures."

Plogens anbefalinger for PKI i offentlig sektor er beskrevet i rapporten KomInn PKI.