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Governments and public administrations produce documents – laws, orders, permits, notifications, etc. With the transition from traditional paper-based administration to eGovernment that we have seen in the last decade, authentic electronic documents gain importance. Electronic signatures promise to be a tool of choice. However, given the choice of access channels – electronic or conventional – public administrations offer, eDocuments will have to co-exist with traditional paper documents for several years, if not for decades. In this paper we discuss the Austrian practical experience gained with eSignatures and eDocuments in eGovernment.
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Leitold, H., Posch, R., Rössler, T. (2009). Media-Break Resistant eSignatures in eGovernment: An Austrian Experience. In: Gritzalis, D., Lopez, J. (eds) Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust. SEC 2009. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01244-0_10
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