Use of Proxy Signature in e-Governance
Aparna Bannore, Satish Devane · 2016
e-Governance aims at producing citizen centric services ensuring services transparency with various government agencies. The process of approving or disapproving the application is marked by digitally signing and forwarding the e-documents. Present digital signature scheme provides the required security using identity based authentication mechanism, but in case of delegating power to third party authority for short period requires additional scheme i.e. Proxy signature system a variant of digital signature. Furthermore the identity based authentication scheme required to be changed to role base authentication using proxy signatures to protect from signature forgery attack and misuse by delegated authority.