ETSI - TS 119 421
Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Policy and Security Requirements for Trust Service Providers issuing Time-Stamps
Organization: | ETSI |
Publication Date: | 1 July 2015 |
Status: | active |
Page Count: | 29 |
scope:
The present document specifies policy and security requirements relating to the operation and management practices of TSPs issuing time-stamps.
These policy requirements are applicable to TSPs issuing time-stamps. Such time-stamps can be used in support of digital signatures or for any application requiring to prove that a datum existed before a particular time.
The present document can be used by independent bodies as the basis for confirming that a TSP can be trusted for issuing time-stamps.
The present document does not specify:
• protocols used to access the TSUs;
NOTE 1: A time-stamping protocol is defined in IETF RFC 3161 [i.2] including optional update in IETF RFC 5816 [i.3] and profiled in ETSI TS 119 422 [5].
• how the requirements identified herein can be assessed by an independent body;
• requirements for information to be made available to such independent bodies;
• requirements on such independent bodies.
NOTE 2: See ETSI TS 119 403 [i.10].
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