Work in progress...

Introduction

if you are new in digital signature, you can read these two articles :

•  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures
•  http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Digital_Signatures.html

legal issues and implications

There is an excellent article on Wikipedia, that enumerates law texts grouped by country :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signatures_and_law

• USA :  http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html
• FRA :
  •  http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=JUSX9900020L,
  •  http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/faq/faq_sigelec.html
  •  http://www.senat.fr/lc/lc67/lc67.html
• UK :  http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2002/20020318.htm

Features

Signature

Online storage of user's file

Create a plugin based approach for managing existing solutions located :

• on the cloud : Amazon S3, Google App engine, ...
• on the local network : J2EE application on a dedicated servers, cifs, ftp, ...

Managing digital signature workflow

Pre requisite : identity database (LDAP or SGBD).

workflow model for digital signature

a worklow is composed of :

• a name and a description
• actors, with their contact info (name, email, user ID, ...)
• how do they interact (order, validation,... ).
• storage and proof managment when the signature process are finished.

file transfert and storage

storage : filesystem? on the cloud? transfert : ftp?

notification

When an actor :

• sign, a message must sent to the user
• refuse to sign, the user's reason must be send to all the other users.