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18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '02)
p. 391
Security Architecture of the Austrian Citizen Card Concept
Herbert Leitold, Austria A-SIT
Arno Hollosi, Federal CIO Office
Reinhard Posch, Federal CIO Office
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When admitting electronic media as a means for citizens
to approach public authorities - i.e., when advancing
official proceedings towards e-Government - security is
an indispensable precondition for concerns of legal
certainty and for achieving acceptance by the citizens.
While the security-enabling technologies such as smartcards,
digital signatures, and PKI are mature, questions of
scalability, technology-neutrality, and forward-compatibility
arise when being deployed on the large
scale, such as when being deployed nationwide.
In this paper the security architecture followed with the
Austrian citizen card is presented. This dedicated concept
where smart-cards are going to be rolled out to every
Austrian citizen will establish the citizen’s security
infrastructure to utilize emerging e-Government
applications. We briefly present the legal provisions that
enable e-Government. We than reflect on requirements to
be fulfilled to achieve a lasting security architecture that
provides swift deployment of applications, but provides the
flexibility to not discriminate against service providers
and technologies that will emerge in future. The concept
called "security layer" is discussed as the core part of the
security architecture, which basically is an open interface
that hides the security-relevant functionality of the citizen
card on a high abstraction level. A few e-Government
applications that are being launched in the short-term are
sketched to give a touch of the variety of requirements
covered in the architecture.
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Citation:
Herbert Leitold, Arno Hollosi, Reinhard Posch,
"Security Architecture of the Austrian Citizen Card Concept,"
acsac,
p. 391,
18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '02),
2002
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