An Evaluated Certification Services System for the German National Root CA - Legally Binding and Trustworthy Transactions in E-Business and E-Government

TL;DR

This paper discusses the development and evaluation of a new certification services system for the German National Root CA, ensuring legally binding e-business and e-government transactions.

Contribution

It introduces a new certification services system for the German National Root CA, detailing its development, evaluation, and impact on legal trustworthiness.

Findings

Successful implementation of the new certification system

Enhanced trustworthiness for e-government transactions

Improved legal compliance in certification processes

Abstract

National Root CAs enable legally binding E-Business and E-Government transactions. This is a report about the development, the evaluation and the certification of the new certification services system for the German National Root CA. We illustrate why a new certification services system was necessary, and which requirements to the new system existed. Then we derive the tasks to be done from the mentioned requirements. After that we introduce the initial situation at the beginning of the project. We report about the very process and talk about some unfamiliar situations, special approaches and remarkable experiences. Finally we present the ready IT system and its impact to E-Business and E-Government.