General Provisions

General Information

There are about 300 certification authorities (CAs) now in Russia, each of them uses its own regulations on safety, financial calculations and technology of issuance of certificates.

Association Center of Accreditation was established to unify the work with e-digital signature (EDS) on the ETP. It develops inified requirements for CAs that want to work within the framework of the Association of electronic trading platforms (AETP). Information about issued certificates is stored in a Single register of public key certificates of the Association.

Terms

Accreditation Center of the Association of electronic trading platforms (hereinafter - the accreditation body) - a legal entity, that leads the accreditation of Certification Authorities within the Association.

Accreditation of Certification Authority - official recognition of the Center of Accreditation that analyses competence of the certification authority to provide services to electronic trading platforms in the use of digital signatures.

Unified space of trust - the information space, which provides identity of digital signatures, regardless of which certification authority issued the signature key certificate.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - technological infrastructure and services, that provide security of information and communication systems through the use of algorithms and public key certificates.

Principles of Certification Authorities in AETP

• Accreditation of CAs as a prerequisite for inclusion in the system;
• A unified set of certificate policy on ETP;
• Compliance with the existing legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of digital signature and information security;
• Technical compatibility of the means of EDS;
• Unique identifiers of objects, keys and numbers of signature key certificates.