CDC Confiance Electronique Européenne

Presentation of FAST project

CDC Confiance Electronique EuropéenneBertrand AIT-TOUATI – Architecture & new services

Market reasons for the emergence of FAST

In certain types of information flow, digitalization has shown a need for: Confidentiality of exchanges Non-tempering of information Authentication of sender and receiver Archiving of exchange in order to be able to use it as a evidence

There are several ways of achieving these needs Ex: creation of industry specific EDI systems or through agreement on using

specific PKI and certificate processes

However, the most user friendly and legally sound way is through the use of a trust infrastructure operated by specialized companies

“ADELE” national plan for eGovernment was created as an answer to these issues

Plan presented by the French Government in 2004 €1,8Bn budget for the 2004-2007 period Composed of 140 measures intended to modernize public services

« Trust Infrastructure enabling the digitalization of exchanges between local and central administrations »

« Trust Infrastructure enabling the digitalization of exchanges between local and central administrations »ADELE 74

What is FAST?

FAST is a service that allows secured electronic information transfer with legal value

FAST is a combination of:

Technological infrastructure

Services around the usage of the infrastructure

Security and confidentiality warranties

Legal follow-up

FAST services

FAST offers customizable services

Trust services

-Administration of certificates

-Rights management and authentication

-Creation of evidence

Infrastructure services

-Identity validation

-Time stamping

-Security

-Encryption

-Archiving

Follow-up services

-Consulting on digitalization issues

-Call center and support

-Training

Digitalization services

-Portals

-Custom made tools that integrate existing client softwares

The FAST platform in public sector in France

Legality check between decentralized public bodies and government

Legality check between decentralized public bodies and government

Fully dematerialized public accountingFully dematerialized public accounting

Birth and death certificatesBirth and death certificates

Dematerialization of French social welfare aid system

Dematerialization of French social welfare aid system

Many other experimentsMany other experiments

Nowadays, FAST coordinates a multiplicity of users and applications

Ministry Interior

Ministry Finance

INSEE

Social

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FAST

FAST

Local public body

CCAS

Hospitals

Mixt Syndicates

Treasuries

Regional bodies

Regional bodies

Legality checkLegality check

FAST strategy in France

Public accountingPublic accounting

HealthHealth

Legal archivingLegal archiving

Welfare Welfare

Convocation of elected Convocation of elected people people

EducationEducation

Birth and death certificatesBirth and death certificates

UrbanismUrbanism

E-procurementE-procurement

FAST Objective: offer a multi-exchanges platform to public sector

FAST value added: be an trust operator

FAST allows customers to capitalize on existing platforms thus:

Capitalizing on acquired experience Diminishing complexity costs Sharing of costs Follow-up of technological changes Follow-up of legal changes/ constraints Neutrality between parties

Management and/or help for deployment Training on site or remote Installation Call center/ helpline of 1st or 2nd level

FAST value added: be an aggregator

Allows users to exchange information of legal value with multiple and heterogeneous points

sender

receiver

receiver

receiver

receiver

FAST

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11 CertificatesCertificates

22 Access tools (portals / API)Access tools (portals / API)

33 Exchange normExchange norm

44 Trust levelTrust level

55 Installation & SupportInstallation & Support

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Example of operationsdone by the transactional platform of FAST

a) Preparation of outbound message

b) Electronic signature

c) Data encryption (optional)

a) Preparation of outbound message

b) Electronic signature

c) Data encryption (optional)

TransmissionTransmission

Origination check

(authentication)

Origination check

(authentication)

Global archivingGlobal archiving

Transmission to authenticated

receivers

Decryption of the data

Transmission to authenticated

receivers

Decryption of the data

Validation of transmission (certificate / signature)

Validation of transmission (certificate / signature)

Time stampingTime stamping

FAST creates evidence at each transaction stepFAST creates evidence at each transaction step

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Sender FAST Receiver

Electronic evidenceElectronic evidence

Constitution of electronic evidence

1.1. TransactionTransaction

2.2. Time stampingTime stamping Obtain a time stamping token either from

FAST or from postal services Integrate the time stamp

3.3. ValidationValidation Certificates validation

Technical validation of certificate Access to control lists

Validation of electronic signatures Cryptographic check Validation of authorization

4.4. Sealing Sealing Archiving index Adding of validation data FAST countersignature

Archiving Archiving IndexIndex

Control Control listslists

Transactional EnvelopTransactional EnvelopTransactional EnvelopTransactional Envelop

Electronic Signature of signing personElectronic Signature of signing person

Technical signature of admin. responsibleTechnical signature of admin. responsible

Technical signature of moral entityTechnical signature of moral entity

Certificates for users Certificates for users

and moral entityand moral entity

TechnicalTechnicalSealSeal

The FAST project has been undertaken by Caisse des Dépots* and is now a recognized trust

infrastructure in France

FAST is a coherent extension of CDC historical activities

Financial depositor of legal professions

Long term partner of public bodies

Two times awarded at the European level

FAST is the first trust platform to be officially recognized by French authorities for legal applications uses

FAST services have already been successfully tested for several years by several hundreds of French public bodiesFAST is being deployed in the UK and in Spain:

Project E-Ten

* Caisse des Dépôts (CDC) is the French Bank of public bodies

Date de l’homologation : 9 mars 2006 Date de l’homologation : 9 mars 2006 

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