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

摘要

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