Kurzfassung

Entwicklung eines 'System Model' für elektronische Signaturen in Prozessen der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Beschreibung

"Nowadays, almost all public administration plan toestablish processes with electronic signatures. For suchprocesses, there are no standardized system models with testcases. We are developing a simplified system model withinterfaces of a public administration to determine an integrationtest with test cases especially for mass processes. These are verytime-consuming and labor intensive. After simulating thesecases, we conclude that applying a functional integration testcould reduce costs for establishing a trust center.We are planning to apply that method in some public administration.The first step is to analyze the actual situation of mass processesin public administration. Our system model is simple andcommon i.e. it could be applied for the various tiers of publicadministration, the European, the federal, the state and the localtier. In our age of globalization and European integration it isparticularly the supranational level, i.e. the European tier, thatis becoming increasingly important. In order to replace thehandwritten signature with an electronic signature a trust centerhas to be set up. The trust center administrates the certificates ofauthorized officers by using electronic signatures. Therefore, itis necessary to analyze the organizational structure to determinethe authorized officers of the mass processes." (Quelle: Lüpken et al. 2000, 1)