Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is the general name of the comprehensive software that brings the processes of producing, delivering, signing, archiving and disposing of corporate documents into the electronic environment.

As required by the Prime Ministry Circular No. 2006/13 on Procedures and Principles for Public Certification Services, it is obligatory that the compliance of the digital and/or mobile signature applications of the public institutions requesting the Qualified Certificate from Kamu SM should be assessed by Kamu SM in accordance with the international technical standards in the electronic signature legislation.

The Digital Signature Conformity Assessment of the EDMS software of the public institutions and organizations consists of checking the compliance of the digital signature mechanism of the EDMS software with the international standards.

It is highly recommended that the signed document format created by the digital signature application should be ETSI TS 101 733 CAdES X-Long, ETSI TS 101 903 XAdES X-Long Type 1 or ETSI TS 103 172 PAdES LT-Level.

In the assessment of EDMS software, the following standards mentioned in the electronic signature legislation are taken as reference:

• CWA 14170: Security Requirements for Signature Creation Applications
• CWA 14171: Procedures for Electronic Signature Verification
• ETSI TS 119 101: Policy and Security Requirements for Applications for Signature Creation and Signature Validation
• ETSI TS 101 733: CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES)
• ETSI TS 101 903: XML Advanced Electronic Signatures (XAdES)
• ETSI TS 102 778: PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES)
• ETSI TS 103 172: PAdES Baseline Profile

The compliance of the following parts of the EDMS software with the relevant standards are assessed:

• Digital signature formats created by the application
• Digital signature creation mechanism of the application
• Digital signature validation mechanism of the application
• Digital signature archiving mechanism of the application
• Signing and validation interface of the application

The institutions that would like to receive Digital Signature Conformity Assessment service from Kamu SM can apply for the service after completing the requirements specified in the Preparation section. Detailed information about the application process can be found here.

The signature validation test packages are given in the following table.