AATL |
Adobe Approved Trust List (Adobe's worldwide list of trusted certification service providers). |
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APA |
Federal Act of 20 December 1968 on Administrative Procedure (Administrative Procedure Act, APA; SR 172.021) |
Authenticity |
In the sense of «found to be original». |
Certificate |
Data structure with the data of the key holder, signature properties, information about the issuing provider, and electronic signature of the provider. |
Class A – qualified |
(Certificate type) qualified signature certificate under the ESigA of the Swiss Government PKI (of the Swiss Federal Administration). |
Class A – regulated official certificate |
(Certificate type) regulated signature certificate under the ESigA of the Swiss Government PKI (of the Swiss Federal Administration). |
Class B |
(Certificate type) advanced signature certificate of the Swiss Government PKI (of the Swiss Federal Administration), issued on a smart card to all employees of the Federal Administration |
Classified document |
Non-public document marked «internal», «confidential», or «secret» |
Content commitment |
Or also «non-repudiation», meaning non-repudiation of a statement of intent in the case of an electronic signature. |
CR |
Certificate request, consisting of a data structure with the contents of the certificate. This is sent to a certification service provider, which then electronically signs the CR once the content of the request has been verified. |
CSP |
Certificate service provider |
DesktopSigner |
With the introduction of Signature Services 2.0, newly introduced locally installed program for signing both with signature keys/certificates managed by the server-based Signature Services and with local signature keys/certificates. The program replaced Open eGov LocalSigner. |
DIN EN 419241-1 |
German Industry Standard (DIN) on Trustworthy Systems Supporting Server Signing - Part 1 |
DTIO |
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E018 |
Internal federal instruction on the use and validation of electronic signatures in PDF documents. |
ECAPO |
Ordinance of 18 June 2010 on Electronic Communication in Administrative Proceedings (ECAPO, SR 172.021.2) |
eIDAS Regulation |
eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services) Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market. |
EPAO |
Ordinance of 8 December 2017 on the Creation of Electronic Public Documents and Electronic Authentications (SR 211.435.1) |
ESigA |
Federal Act of 18 March 2016 on Certification Services in relation to Electronic Signatures and Other Applications of Digital Certificates (Federal Act on Electronic Signatures, ESigA; SR 943.03) |
EUTL |
European Union Trusted Lists (Adobe's lists of trusted EU certification service providers) |
Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems, and Telecommunication FOITT and other third-party providers | Swiss certification service providers recognised under the ESigA. |
GEVER, GEVER system |
Electronic records and process management, electronic records and process management system |
Hash, SHA-1, SHA-2 |
A hash is the result of a hash function, a unique string of characters of a certain length derived from a document, which is encrypted with the private key when an electronic signature is created. SHA-1 means a length of 128 characters, SHA-2 256 characters or longer. |
HSM (hardware security module) |
Hardware security module means an internal or external device for the secure storage of data and the efficient and secure execution of cryptographic operations. |
Integrity |
Refers to content or document that has not been altered |
ISO 32000-x, ISO 19005-x, ISO 14289 |
Standards for various PDF/A formats |
ISO 1905-1 |
Standards for long-term archiving of PDF files (PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b) |
Media discontinuity |
A media discontinuity occurs in information processing when, in the transmission chain of a process, data/information is (must be) transferred from one information medium to another or different information medium. The goal is processing without media discontinuity. |
SCO |
Federal Act of 30 March 1911 on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code (Part Five: Code of Obligations), SCO, SR 220 |
PDF/A-1a |
ISO1905-1 standard on long-term archiving of PDF files |
PDF/A-1b |
ISO1905-1 standard on long-term archiving of PDF files |
PDF/A-2a |
ISO1905-2 standard on long-term archiving of PDF files. PDF/A-Levels 2a, 2b and 2u supplement PDF/A-1. |
PIN |
Personal identification number, a secret number, a sequence of digits known only to one or a few persons, with which they can authenticate themselves to a machine. |
PKI |
Public key infrastructure, infrastructure of a certification service provider based on the principle of a key pair of a private key and an associated public key. |
Revocation |
Revocation in asymmetric cryptographic systems means the revocation of a public key. |
Root certificate |
Top-level certificate of a provider that is used to sign intermediate certificates or end certificates. |
Signature key |
The private key is used to sign (encrypt) the hash value during the signature process. The public key (in the certificate) is used to decrypt the signed hash value when verifying the signature. |
Smartcard |
Chip card, often also referred to as a key card or integrated circuit card (ICC). It usually contains a microprocessor. It must be specially certified for use in electronic signatures. |
SP-FOITT |
IT services provider of the federal government: Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems, and Telecommunication |
SSCD |
Secure signature creation device, secure device for creating electronic signatures |
Time stamp |
A qualified time stamp is necessary for a qualified signature to be valid. |
Trusted third party |
In the case of electronic signatures, the certification service provider. |
Validator of the Federal Administration |
Publicly available system provided by the Swiss Federal Administration to verify electronically signed documents. |