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ESTIO Electronic Signature Testsuit for
Inter-Operability
A project supported by theEU ISIS programme
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Content

• Project Objectives and Partners
• Project tasks
• Testing methodology
• Project plan

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Project Objectives

• Specify infrastructure and tools to perform
  conformance testing of e-signature related
  products for the following standards
• X.509 Qualified Certificates
• Electronic Signature Formats (ETSI, XML, EDIFACT)
• Provision of these tools to allow testing of
  e-signature products

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Partners
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Tasks to be performed

• T1 Functional requirement specifications
• T2 Specification and implementation of test
  tools
• T3 Validation of test tools by industry partners
• T4 Liaisons with the European Standardisation
  Bodies
• T5 Project Management

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T1 Functional Requirement Specification

• Conformance requirements for specified standards
• X.509 qualified certificate format
• ETSI signature formats
• XML signature formats
• (EDIFACT signature formats)
• Testing approach
• Functional specification for testing tools

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Testing approach

• Verify formats generated by the product
  (certificates, signature creation)
• Generate formats to drive the product and study
  its behavior (signature verification)

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Testing approach (cont.)
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T2 Specification and implementation of test tools

• Specification of flexible and user-friendly
  testing tools
• Implementation of testing tools using existing
  products
• ASN.1 encoders/decoders and compilers
• Development of test cases

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T3 Validation of test tools

• Validation of test tools by
• industry partners
• Baltimore, iD2, Secude, Safelayer
• independent testing laboratories
• LGAI

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T4 Liaisons with Standards Bodies

• Attend the meetings where these topics will be
  discussed in order to
• receive information on standards-in-progress
• get feedback on proposed conformance requirements
• get feedback on testing approach
• give feedback on proposed standards
• Standards bodies to liase with
• ETSI ESI WG !!
• CEN/ISSS E-SIGN WS
• IETF PKIX
• W3C
• ISO/IEC ITJC1/SC27

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Project plan