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AN APEC PERSPECTIVE. Steve Orlowski Chair eSecurity Task Group APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group. BACKGROUND. Established 1997 under the APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group Two main areas: electronic security (added 2000) electronic authentication
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AN APEC PERSPECTIVE Steve Orlowski Chair eSecurity Task Group APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group
BACKGROUND • Established 1997 under the APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group • Two main areas: • electronic security (added 2000) • electronic authentication • Sub group - PKI Interoperability Expert Group • Liaison with other international bodies
CURRENT ACTIVITIES • APEC Cybersecurity Strategy • CERT capacity building • Cybercrime legislation survey • IT security training material • Compendium of IT security standards • IT security skills recognition • Encryption policies • Electronic authentication
ELECTRONIC AUTHENTICATION • Issues paper published (hard copy and electronic) • covers all technologies • PKI interoperability - mapping of accreditation schemes
ISSUES PAPER • Business models • Technology • User requirements • Trust • Cultural differences • Legal issues
PKI INTEROPERABILITY • Differing Approaches • APEC mapping of accreditation schemes • legal • policy • technical • APEC high level principles for schemes
APPROACHES • Hierarchies • root CA • Cross certification • CA to CA • Cross recognition • scheme to scheme
CROSS RECOGNITION • Developed by APEC • Maps accreditation schemes rather than individual CAs • Public or private sector • Assurance and evidence of legal effect • Accreditation certificate • unilateral cross certificate • similar to TSP data • Certificate trust lists
CA MAPPING • Based on RFC 2527 • Approx 200 points of comparison • Rough equivalence • Australia - Gatekeeper grade 2 (mid level) • Canada - GoC PKI medium • EU - qualified • Singapore - advanced • United States - FBCA medium • Identrus (Australian implementation) • Hong Kong to join
HIGH LEVEL GUIDELINES • Based on a series of questionnaires • High level principles developed • Accepted by TEL 27
PRINCIPLES • Legal • recognition of foreign schemes • technology not mandated • Policy • based on internationally recognised standards • Technical • identification and naming • FIPS, common criteria or equivalent technology • archives • directory access
STANDARDS REQUIREMENTS • Cryptographic modules • FIPS 140-2 to ISO April 2003 • Implementations • physical • personnel • administrative • overall technical • CA protection profile for issue of qualified certificate or equivalent?
REFERENCES • eSTG Website http://www.apectelwg.org/apec/atwg/preatg.html • Principles http://www.apectel27.org.my/ESTG-8.doc • Mappings (not EU) http://www.apectel27.org.my/ESTG-5.doc