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PEPPOL – Experience from Four Years Work on eSignature Interoperability

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The PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) project started May 2008 and lasted until end of August 2012. The aim of the project was to enable cross-border public procurement in the EU internal market. In most Member States, electronic tendering for public procurement requires use of qualified or advanced eSignature, meaning that cross-border e-tendering is only possible if eSignatures work cross-border. PEPPOL specified and implemented a validation service based solution for cross-border e-signatures. The focus is on the needs of the receiver of eSignatures (the relying party) as the actor that faces the major complexity. This paper sums up experience from PEPPOL’s work.

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Ølnes, J. (2012). PEPPOL – Experience from Four Years Work on eSignature Interoperability. In: Reimer, H., Pohlmann, N., Schneider, W. (eds) ISSE 2012 Securing Electronic Business Processes. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00333-3_27

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