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A Shared Certified Mail System for the Austrian Public and Private Sectors

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Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2011)

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It is vital for public administrations and private businesses to send important documents such as bids or subpoenas in a secure and reliable way. Therefore, many countries have put various certified mail systems in place on the Internet. Due to the low number of official deliveries, it is reasonable to search for synergies with the private sector to guarantee the economic success of such widely-deployed systems. Opening a governmental system to the private sector inevitably raises challenges and security requirements in terms of qualified identification, data privacy protection, and trust. Privacy issues may arise when national (governmental) identification numbers are used. Trust issues may arise when trusted third parties are involved. Even if trusted third parties do not conspire with senders or recipients concerning a fair message exchange, they may cheat when financial interests come into play, e.g. in a per-message payment scheme. In this paper we present a solution addressing these issues from a practical viewpoint. Our solution distributes trust among different domains and introduces a scheme for qualified authentication and identification of recipients using the Austrian national electronic ID card to meet the requirements for data privacy protection.

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  1. E-Government Innovation Center, Inffeldgasse 16/a, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Arne Tauber, Bernd Zwattendorfer & Thomas Zefferer

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  1. Center for Applied ICT (CAICT) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Howitzvej 60, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kim Normann Andersen

  2. Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Italian National Reserach Council, Via de’ Barucci 20, 50127, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

    Åke Grönlund

  4. Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1000BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tom M. van Engers

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Tauber, A., Zwattendorfer, B., Zefferer, T. (2011). A Shared Certified Mail System for the Austrian Public and Private Sectors. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22961-9_28

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