ETSI TS 101 733 V1.7.4 (2008-07)

Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES)

RTS/ESI-000061

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 24-Jul-2008
• Technical Committee: ESI - Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 30-Jun-2008
• Completion Date: 25-Jul-2008

Standards Content (Sample)

ETSI TS 101 733 V1.7.4 (2008-07)
Technical Specification


Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI);
CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES)

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Reference
RTS/ESI-000061
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e-commerce, electronic signature, security
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.7
Foreword.7
Introduction .7
1 Scope.8
2 References.9
2.1 Normative references.9
2.2 Informative references.10
3 Definitions and abbreviations.12
3.1 Definitions.12
3.2 Abbreviations.14
4 Overview.15
4.1 Major Parties.15
4.2 Signature Policies.16
4.3 Electronic Signature Formats .16
4.3.1 CAdES Basic Electronic Signature (CAdES-BES) .16
4.3.2 CAdES Explicit Policy-based Electronic Signatures (CAdES-EPES).18
4.4 Electronic Signature Formats with Validation Data.19
4.4.1 Electronic Signature with Time (CAdES-T).19
4.4.2 ES with Complete Validation Data References (CAdES-C) .20
4.4.3 Extended Electronic Signature Formats.21
4.4.3.1 EXtended Long Electronic Signature (CAdES-X Long) .22
4.4.3.2 EXtended Electronic Signature with Time Type 1 (CAdES-X Type 1) .22
4.4.3.3 EXtended Electronic Signature with Time Type 2 (CAdES-X Type 2) .23
4.4.3.4 EXtended Long Electronic Signature with Time (CAdES-X Long Type 1 or 2).23
4.4.4 Archival Electronic Signature (CAdES-A).24
4.5 Arbitration.24
4.6 Validation Process.24
5 Electronic Signature Attributes .25
5.1 General Syntax.25
5.2 Data Content Type.25
5.3 Signed-data Content Type .25
5.4 SignedData Type.25
5.5 EncapsulatedContentInfo Type.26
5.6 SignerInfo Type.26
5.6.1 Message Digest Calculation Process.26
5.6.2 Message Signature Generation Process .26
5.6.3 Message Signature Verification Process.26
5.7 Basic ES Mandatory Present Attributes .26
5.7.1 content-type.27
5.7.2 Message Digest.27
5.7.3 Signing Certificate Reference Attributes .27
5.7.3.1 ESS signing-certificate Attribute Definition .27
5.7.3.2 ESS signing-certificate-v2 Attribute Definition.28
5.7.3.3 Other signing-certificate Attribute Definition.28
5.8 Additional Mandatory Attributes for Explicit Policy-based Electronic Signatures.29
5.8.1 signature-policy-identifier.29
5.9 CMS Imported Optional Attributes .30
5.9.1 signing-time.30
5.9.2 countersignature.30
5.10 ESS-Imported Optional Attributes .30
5.10.1 content-reference Attribute.31
5.10.2 content-identifier Attribute.31
5.10.3 content-hints Attribute.31
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5.11 Additional Optional Attributes Defined in the Present Document .32
5.11.1 commitment-type-indication Attribute.32
5.11.2 signer-location Attribute.33
5.11.3 signer-attributes Attribute.33
5.11.4 content-time-stamp Attribute.34
5.12 Support for Multiple Signatures .34
5.12.1 Independent Signatures.34
5.12.2 Embedded Signatures.34
6 Additional Electronic Signature Validation Attributes .35
6.1 signature time-stamp Attribute (CAdES-T) .36
6.1.1 signature-time-stamp Attribute Definition.36
6.2 Complete Validation Data References (CAdES-C).36
6.2.1 complete-certificate-references Attribute Definition .37
6.2.2 complete-revocation-references Attribute Definition .37
6.2.3 attribute-certificate-references Attribute Definition .38
6.2.4 attribute-revocation-references Attribute Definition.39
6.3 Extended Validation Data (CAdES-X).39
6.3.1 Time-Stamped Validation Data (CAdES-X Type 1 or Type 2).39
6.3.2 Long Validation Data (CAdES-X Long, CAdES-X Long Type 1 or 2) .39
6.3.3 certificate-values Attribute Definition .40
6.3.4 revocation-values Attribute Definition .40
6.3.5 CAdES-C-time-stamp Attribute Definition .41
6.3.6 time-stamped-certs-crls-references Attribute Definition .41
6.4 Archive Validation Data.42
6.4.1 archive-time-stamp Attribute Definition.42
7 Other Standard Data Structures.43
7.1 Public Key Certificate Format.43
7.2 Certificate Revocation List Format .43
7.3 OCSP Response Format .44
7.4 Time-Stamp Token Format .44
7.5 Name and Attribute Formats .44
7.6 Attribute Certificate.44
8 Conformance Requirements.44
8.1 CAdES-Basic Electronic Signature (CAdES-BES).45
8.2 CAdES-Explicit Policy-based Electronic Signature.45
8.3 Verification Using Time-Stamping .45
8.4 Verification Using Secure Records .46
Annex A (normative): ASN.1 Definitions.47
A.1 Signature Format Definitions Using X.208 ASN.1 Syntax.47
A.2 Signature Format Definitions Using X.680 ASN.1 Syntax.52
Annex B (informative): Extended Forms of Electronic Signatures .58
B.1 Extended Forms of Validation Data.58
B.1.1 CAdES-X Long.58
B.1.2 CAdES-X Type 1 .59
B.1.3 CAdES-X Type 2 .60
B.1.4 CAdES-X Long Type 1 and CAdES-X Long Type 2 .61
B.2 Time-Stamp Extensions.62
B.3 Archive Validation Data (CAdES-A).62
B.4 Example Validation Sequence.64
B.5 Additional Optional Features .67
Annex C (informative): General Description.68
C.1 The Signature Policy .68
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C.2 Signed Information.69
C.3 Components of an Electronic Signature.69
C.3.1 Reference to the Signature Policy .69
C.3.2 Commitment Type Indication.69
C.3.3 Certificate Identifier from the Signer .70
C.3.4 Role Attributes.70
C.3.4.1 Claimed Role.70
C.3.4.2 Certified Role.70
C.3.5 Signer Location.71
C.3.6 Signing Time.71
C.3.7 Content Format.71
C.3.8 content-hints.71
C.3.9 Content Cross-Referencing.71
C.4 Components of Validation Data.71
C.4.1 Revocation Status Information .71
C.4.1.1 CRL Information.72
C.4.1.2 OCSP Information.72
C.4.2 Certification Path.72
C.4.3 Time-Stamping for Long Life of Signatures .73
C.4.4 Time-Stamping for Long Life of Signature before CA Key Compromises .73
C.4.4.1 Time-Stamping the ES with Complete Validation Data (CAdES-X Type 1).74
C.4.4.2 Time-Stamping Certificates and Revocation Information References (CAdES-X Type 2).74
C.4.5 Time-Stamping for Archive of Signature.75
C.4.6 Reference to Additional Data .75
C.4.7 Time-Stamping for Mutual Recognition .76
C.4.8 TSA Key Compromise.76
C.5 Multiple Signatures .76
Annex D (informative): Data Protocols to Interoperate with TSPs.78
D.1 Operational Protocols.78
D.1.1 Certificate Retrieval.78
D.1.2 CRL Retrieval.78
D.1.3 Online Certificate Status .78
D.1.4 Time-Stamping.78
D.2 Management Protocols.78
D.2.1 Request for Certificate Revocation .78
Annex E (informative): Security Considerations .79
E.1 Protection of Private Key .79
E.2 Choice of Algorithms.79
Annex F (informative): Example Structured Contents and MIME .80
F.1 Use of MIME to Encode Data.80
F.1.1 Header Information.80
F.1.2 Content Encoding.81
F.1.3 Multi-Part Content.81
F.2 S/MIME.81
F.2.1 Using application/pkcs7-mime.82
F.2.2 Using application/pkcs7-signature.83
Annex G (informative): Relationship to the European Directive and EESSI .84
G.1 Introduction.84
G.2 Electronic Signatures and the Directive .84
G.3 ETSI Electronic Signature Formats and the Directive .85
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G.4 EESSI Standards and Classes of Electronic Signature.85
G.4.1 Structure of EESSI Standardization .85
G.4.2 Classes of Electronic Signatures .85
G.4.3 Electronic Signature Classes and the ETSI Electronic Signature Format .86
Annex H (informative): APIs for the Generation and Verification of Electronic Signatures
Tokens.87
H.1 Data Framing.87
H.2 IDUP-GSS-APIs Defined by the IETF.88
H.3 CORBA Security Interfaces Defined by the OMG .89
Annex I (informative): Cryptographic Algorithms.90
I.1 Digest Algorithms .90
I.1.1 SHA-1.90
I.1.2 General.90
I.2 Digital Signature Algorithms .91
I.2.1 DSA.91
I.2.2 RSA.91
I.2.3 General.91
Annex J (informative): Guidance on Naming .93
J.1 Allocation of Names.93
J.2 Providing Access to Registration Information .93
J.3 Naming Schemes.94
J.3.1 Naming Schemes for Individual Citizens.94
J.3.2 Naming Schemes for Employees of an Organization.94
Annex K (informative): Changes from the previous version.95
Annex L (informative): Bibliography.96
History .97

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