Dawn M. Turner (guest)

Dawn M. Turner is a professional author with a passion for technical regulations and standards, as well as for their relevance and impact on corporate operations and industry in general. Dawn has more than 10 years of IT industry experience in hardware, programming & systems & network engineering. Her educational background includes a Certificate in computer operations & programming, CompTIA and Microsoft certifications, including A+, MCSE and MCP, Associates degree with major in business & minor in computer science, Bachelors of Science degree with major in business forensics & minor in accounting and an MBA with concentrations in finance & economics.

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Whitfield Diffie: the well-deserved laureate of the 2015 Turing Award

On June 11, 2016, Whitfield Diffie, a Technical Advisory Board member at Cryptomathic, and Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical...

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What is a Qualified Digital Certificate for Electronic Signatures in eIDAS

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What is an eIDAS Qualified Certificate for Electronic Signatures?

Under the eIDAS Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, a qualified certificate for electronic signature refers to “a certificate for electronic signatures,...

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The eIDAS regulation is officially here

On 1 July 2016, the eIDAS Regulation officially replaces EU 1999/93 Directive for providing governance over electronic identification and trust...

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Trust Service Providers according to eIDAS

Under Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (eIDAS), a Trust Service Provider (TSP) is defined as “a natural or a legal person who provides one or more trust...

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What is an Associated Signature Container and How Does it Work?

When an electronic signature is created, it must be associated to the data that it is being used to secure. This is accomplished by creating a data...

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Understanding ZertES, the Swiss Federal Law on Electronic Signatures

On December 19, 2003, ZertES, the Swiss Federal law regarding the use of certification services with electronic signatures was approved into law.

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What Is An Electronic Signature Policy?

This article explains what an electronic signature policy is from the perspective of a CISO or other person required to maintain information security.

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Introduction into XAdES for Trust Service Providers

The term XAdES stands for XML Advanced Electronic Signatures, which specifies a set of extensions that are used with the W3C recommendation for XML...

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Is the NIST Digital Signature Standard DSS legally binding?

Under the Computer Security Act of 1987, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was authorized to approve standards and set...

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