Secure Framework for e-Government Application using Short-Lived Certificate and Hybrid Encryption

Abstract

Although electronic documents have been greatly widely used in different applications including the e-government and e-business, it would also result that electronic documents information is disclosed, counterfeited, tampered, repudiated and so on. Some of the e- Government applications may require providing user access in short limited time. Besides that sending and receiving back information must be secured and confidentiality and integrity must be guaranteed for the users. In order to solve the problems and greatly improve the security of electronic documents, a hybrid encryption technology, that is, encryption technology, digital digest, digital authentication and digital signature will be used. This paper proposes an applicable solution for e-Government Applications (where users only need limited short time access and ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of information being sent) by using the hybrid encryption technology together with a short-lived certificate framework.