about electronic signatures there are more or less some writings concerning their legal aspect. but in those writings there has been a little attention to credibility and evidential value of the electronic signatures. some questions and ambiguities despite being set before has not been answered at all or answered unsatisfactorily. meanwhile, some authors have made mistakes and some have set tri...

Despite a legal framework being in place for several years, the market share of qualified electronic signatures is disappointingly low. Mobile Signatures provide a new and promising opportunity for the deployment of an infrastructure for qualified electronic signatures. We analyzed two possible signing approaches (server based and client based signatures) and conclude that SIM-based signatures ...

It is a common misunderstanding that, in Europe, in order to have a legally valid electronic signature, you need a “qualified” electronic signature. The European Electronic Signatures Directive is very clear in this respect, though: it is forbidden to deny any legal effectiveness to an electronic signature solely on the ground that it is not qualified, for instance because not based on a qualif...

Four years have passed since the EU directive on electronic signatures has been enacted by the European Union. By 2002, all EU member countries had to implement local legislation for electronic signatures. Development of products and applications in these countries so far, mainly focuses on signing with desktop PC’s on the basis of smart cards, issued by certification authorities. Several parti...

The purpose of Directive 1999/93 / EC on the Community framework for electronic signatures is to facilitate use signatures. Digital are incredibly important as they prevent fraud in e-commerce transactions. A legal established ensure smooth functioning internal market. This article aims interpret European digital Member States shall at least that, when issuing a certificate, certification body ...

Accredited Certification Service which was begun with enforcement of Digital Signature Act on July 1, 1999 for secure electronic transaction with allow the legal effect to digital signature, have supported a secure electronic transaction such as internet banking and on-line stocks. But, because ordinary people can obtain hacking tool easily by fast development of informationalization, security ...