Global Trust Anchor:
Intereoperability of Digital Signatures Through Validation
Regional Governments benefit from the DNV Validation Authority servives
as one-stop-shopping for validation of digital certificates and
verification of digital signatures: One point of trust, one agreement
one point of billing, one technical integration and one point of
communication.
The DNV VA
service enable organisations to accept, validate and provision
digitally signed orders, documents, contracts, electronic invoices and
procurement tenders coming from different countries and from different
eID's. The service enables:
- Verifying of digital signatures
- Validating accompanying certificates
- Information on historical verification and validation of signature (digital signature validitity level assurance)
- E-procurement systems to accept multiply signed documents and/ or signatures generated from different eID's in Europe
- Reporting risk related to accepting digital certificates/ signatures in the e-procurement system
- Assessment of the quality of the certificate
- Assessment of the trustworthiness of certificate issuer
- Evaluation of liability taken by issuer of that certificate
- Possibility for claiming liability
- Assurance of legal compliance
- Audit trails (EUROSOX, Basel 2 on risk management)
- Attestation of audit and authorisation trails
The DNV VA is a Global Trust Anchor that enables interpoperability between different eID's and digital signatures: 
Interoperability Achieved with Shift of Trust Authority
Rather
than trying to solve interoperability through trust structures amongst
certificate authorities, DNV introduces an independent validation
authority that replaces the certificate authorities as the trust anchor
for the customer, as opposed to present PKI theory and practice, where
only a certifcate authority may be trusted.
The DNV solution enables customers to receive and verify digitally
signed documents and data from in principle anyone, making it
attractive for international eServices and electronic transactions.
Such a solution is needed by any internationally oriented organisation
that wants to make use of digital signatures to improve their work flow
processes.
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