Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION › Part I - General Provisions › Chapter 7 - Implementation of Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act- P.L. 106-229 › Section I-707 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The following
				words and terms, when used in this Section, shall have the following meanings
				unless the context expressly indicates otherwise.
Asymmetric Cryptosystem
-a computer-based
				  system that employs two different but mathematically related keys with the
				  following characteristics:
a. one key encrypts a given message;
b. one key decrypts a given message; and
c. the keys have the property that, knowing one key, it is
				  computationally infeasible to discover the other key.
a. identifies the certification authority issuing it;
b. names or identifies its subscriber;
c. contains the subscriber's public key;
d. identifies its operational period;
e. is digitally signed by the certification authority issuing
				  it; and
f. conforms to ISO X.509 Version 3 standards.
Certificate Manufacturer
-a person that
				  provides operational services for a certification authority or PKI service
				  provider. The nature and scope of the obligations and functions of a
				  certificate manufacturer depend on contractual arrangements between the
				  certification authority or other PKI service provider and the certificate
				  manufacturer.
Certificate Policy
-a document prepared by a
				  policy authority that describes the parties, scope of business, functional
				  operations, and obligations between and among PKI service providers and end
				  entities who engage in electronic transactions in a public key
				  infrastructure.
Certification Authority
-a person who issues
				  a certificate.
Certification Practice Statement
-documentation of the practices, procedures, and controls employed by
				  a certification authority.
Digital Signature
-an electronic identifier
				  intended by the person using it to have the same force and effect as the use of
				  a manual signature, and that complies with the requirements of this
				  Section.
Digitally-Signed Communication
-a message
				  that has been processed by a computer in such a manner that ties the message to
				  the individual that signed the message.
End Entities
-subscribers or signers and
				  relying parties.
Escrow Agent
-a person who holds a copy of a
				  private key at the request of the owner of the private key in a trustworthy
				  manner.
Handwriting Measurements
-the metrics of the
				  shapes, speeds and/or other distinguishing features of a signature as the
				  person writes it by hand with a pen or stylus on a flat surface.
Key Pair
-a private key and its
				  corresponding public key in an asymmetric cryptosystem. The keys have the
				  property that the public key can verify a digital signature that the private
				  key creates.
Local Government
-a parish, municipality,
				  special district, or other political subdivision of this state, or a
				  combination of two or more of those entities.
Message
-a digital representation of
				  information.
Person
-an individual, state agency, local
				  government, corporation, partnership, association, organization, or any other
				  legal entity.
PKI
-Public Key Infrastructure.
PKI Service Provider
-a certification
				  authority, certificate manufacturer, registrar, or any other person that
				  performs services pertaining to the issuance or verification of
				  certificates.
Policy Authority
-a person with final
				  authority and responsibility for specifying a certificate policy.
Private Key
-the key of a key pair used to
				  create a digital signature.
Proof of Identification
-the document or
				  documents or other evidence presented to a certification authority to establish
				  the identity of a subscriber.
Public Key
-the key of a key pair used to
				  verify a digital signature.
Public Key Cryptography
-a type of
				  cryptographic technology that employs an asymmetric cryptosystem.
Registrar
-a person that gathers evidence
				  necessary to confirm the accuracy of information to be included in a
				  subscriber's certificate.
Relying Party
-a state agency that has
				  received an electronic message that has been signed with a digital signature
				  and is in a position to rely on the message and signature.
Role-Based Key
-a key pair issued to a
				  person to use when acting in a particular business or organizational
				  capacity.
Signature Digest
-the resulting bit-string
				  produced when a signature is tied to a document using signature
				  dynamics.
Signer
-the person who signs a digitally
				  signed communication with the use of an acceptable technology to uniquely link
				  the message with the person sending it.
State Agency
-a department, commission,
				  board, office, council, or other agency in the executive branch of state
				  government that is created by the constitution, executive order, or a statute
				  of this state. Higher education, the legislature and the judiciary are to be
				  considered state agencies to the extent that the communication is pursuant to a
				  state law applicable to such entities.
a. is the subject listed in a certificate;
b. accepts the certificate; and
c. holds a private key which corresponds to a public key
				  listed in that certificate.
Technology
-the computer hardware and/or
				  software-based method or process used to create digital signatures.
Written Electronic Communication
-a message
				  that is sent by one person to another person.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  39:4(c).