Studia Informatica Pomerania
WNEiZ
Autor: Tomasz Klasa 21
Strony: 21-31
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ELECTRONIC IDENTITY VERIFICATION IN MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSYTEMS

Summary
Growing number of medical information systems is responsible for many processes that earlier required personal meeting. This revealed a problem with identity verifi cation. While traditional ID documents are worthless, many other methods do not bind trustfully electronic identity with the real one, which causes risk of impersonifi cation attack. And secure digital signature requires qualifi ed certifi cates, issued by commercial companies. Proposed identity verifi cation system makes a use of certifi cateless public key cryptography, which eliminates commercial certifi cates and requirement of trust to business-based authorities. Trust origins from governmental institution and e-ID issued by it, just like in analog world. Simpler infrastructure and fully comparable security level make it an interesting alternative. Especially only months prior to introduction of e-ID documents in Poland.