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Juan Carlos Cruellas - XAdES/CAdES Technology Tutorial
Nick Pope - Need for Long Term Validation using XAdES and CAdES
Sudha Iyer - Customer Case Studies using PDF Digital Signatures
Jim King - Digital Signatures in PDF Technology Tutorial
CeBIT 2008
Workshop on Digital Signature and PDF
Workshop on Digital Signatures and PDF
Organized by ETSI ESI and ISO STF Experts
May 21-22, 2008
ETSI
650 Route des Lucioles
F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
France
 

Meeting venue:
Einstein (office building) Vivaldi (meeting room)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
  • 9:00 - 9:15 Opening
    Riccardo Genghini - Chairman ETSI-ESI and Marc Straat - Adobe
    Meeting objectives and Goals

  • 9:15 - 9:45 Brief Introductions of all participants - Roll Call

  • 9:45 - 10:30 Digital Signatures in PDF Technology Tutorial
    Jim King - Project Editor ISO 32000 / PDF Platform Architect Adobe
    Explain PDF digital signatures in sufficient detail to answer most questions. Things like what can/cannot be changed without breaking the message digest? Or how is the message digest protected from change? When are certificates checked?

  • 10:30 - 10:45 Break

  • 10:45 - 11:30 Jim King - Continued

  • 11.30 - 12.30 - Customer Case Studies using PDF Digital Signatures
    Sudha Iyer - Product Manager Adobe
    Explain the problems that current PDF signatures solve and how. Short demos of Acrobat interface.
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 14.30 Need for Long Term Validation using XAdES and CAdES
    Nick Pope - ETSI ESI / Thales Security
    Understand the use cases for XAdES and CAdES. Explain the non-technical aspects that have guided the ESI work.

  • 14.30 - 14.45 Break (15 minutes)

  • 14.45 - 16:15 XAdES/CAdES Technology Tutorial
    Juan Carlos Cruellas - ETSI ESI / Universtitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Tutorial talk about the details of XAdES and CAdES. What is digested and how. Options for what is contained within what.

  • 16.15 - 16.45 Early implementations of AdES within PDF
    Rodolfo Lomascolo - CEO ipsCA
    Ending the first day with a brief overview how AdES standards are applied using the PDF model


Thursday, May 22, 2008
  • 9:00 - 9:30 Recap previous day
    Leonard Rosenthol - Project Editor ISO 19005 and ISO 24517 / Standards Evangelist Adobe
    A brief summary of the four topics presented the day before: business frameworks and technology for both PDF and ESI digital signature methods.

  • 9:30 - 10:30 Discussion of Current PDF Digital Signature Technology Led by Phil Levy - Principal Scientist Adobe
    An open forum to clarify PDF digital signature technology based upon the talk the previous day. Chance to ask in more detail why things were done as they were. The emphasis is on establishing a common knowledge level.

  • 10:30 - 10:45 Break

  • 10:45 - 11:45 Discussion of XAdES and CAdES technology
    Nick Pope and Juan Carlos Cruellas - ETSI ESI
    An open forum to clarify ESI digital signature technologies based upon the talk the previous day. Chance to ask in more detail why things were done as they were. The emphasis is on establishing a common knowledge level.

  • 11:45 - 12:15 ‘Organizing the parking space’
    Beginning from the first day, we will collect a list of topics for further discussion — a “parked” item list. At this point, this list will be reviewed and structured. Also additional topics can be listed to cover and incorporate them into the afternoon schedule. Possible topics might be proposals for improving PDF dig sig to address requirements, proposals for how to incorporate CAdES into PDF or guidance for implementation.

  • 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch

  • 13:15 - 14:45 Discussion - Led by Sudha Iyer
    Working out the ‘parking space’ topics

  • 14.45 - 15:00 Break

  • 15:00 - 16:00 Final Agenda items and Closing - Led by Nick Pope/Juan Carlos Cruellas
    Related standardization efforts to AdES, Visual Signatures and PDF Digital Signatures (Oasis, W3C, CEN eInvoicing ws and others). New Work Item ETSI STF - PDF and AdES and Next Steps to take
 
 
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