Volume V

Issue : 12: June 14, 2007

• Lawsuit Launched Against Popular Online Dating Service Based on Websites Exclusion of Gays
• Ontario Court Orders Husband to Produce Hard Drive of Personal Computer in Family Law Proceedings
• Canada Proposes Criminal Code Amendment to Combat Unauthorized Recording of Movies
• Standards Set for Digital Signatures
• CIRA Disallows Complaint Over yellowpage.ca
• Settlement in Rigged Bidding Allegation on eBay
• US ISPs Starting to Charge for "Guaranteed" Email Delivery
• Ontario Court Bars Opposing Counsel from Utilizing Email Sent by Mistake
• Broadcom Adds ITC Order to its Jury Award in Qualcomm Dispute
• "Googling" Delinquent Tax Payer Not Sufficient in Tax Seizure Action

Home > Volume V > Issue 12: June 14, 2007 > Standards Set for Digital Signatures

Standards Set for Digital Signatures

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) gave Digital Signature Services (DSS) version 1.0 its highest level of ratification on June 7, 2007. DSS is designed to ensure data authenticity between interacting Web servers and to provide a tamper-proof mechanism to provide electronic timestamps, postmarks or official corporate imprimaturs. DSS is a two-protocol system, using one XML protocol for signatures and a second for verification. DSS is further designed to support multiple signature formats, including XML and CMS.

The DSS OASIS Standard was developed by representatives of the American Bar Association, Austria Federal Chancellery, BEA Systems, CATCert-Agencia Catalana de Certificacio, IBM, Nokia, Universal Postal Union, and others.

For a copy of the OASIS Press Release, visit:

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-07.php