Withdrawn Rationale:
This specification covers the use of digital signatures to provide authentication of healthcare information, as described in Guide E 1762. It describes how the components of a digital signature system meet the requirements specified in Guide E 1762. This includes specification of allowable signature and hash algorithms, management of public and private keys, and specific formats for keys, certificates, and signed healthcare documents.
Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics, this specification was withdrawn in February 2009 in accordance with section 10.5.3.1 of the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees, which requires that standards shall be updated by the end of the eighth year since the last approval date.
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers the use of digital signatures to provide authentication of healthcare information, as described in Guide E 1762. It describes how the components of a digital signature system meet the requirements specified in Guide E 1762. This includes specification of allowable signature and hash algorithms, management of public and private keys, and specific formats for keys, certificates, and signed healthcare documents.
1.2 This specification should be read in conjunction with Guide E 1762, which describes the scope of, and requirements for, authentication of healthcare information. This specification describes one implementation (digital signatures) that meets all of the requirements of Guide E 1762. It does not prescribe any particular policy regarding which documents shall be authenticated, and by whom.
2. Referenced Documents
E1762 Guide for Electronic Authentication of Healthcare Information
ISO10166 1991: Document Filing and Retrieval (DFR)
ISO8824-1 1993: Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
ISO8825-1 1993: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for ASN.1
ISO9594-8 1993: The Directory: Authentication Framework (also available as ITU-S X.509)
ISO9796 1991: Digital Signature Scheme Giving Message Recovery
ITU-T X.501 Information Technology Open Systems Interconnection-The Directory: Models
RFC 2630 Cryptographic Message Syntax
RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax (version 1.5)," November 1993
RSA Laboratories, PKCS #6: Extended Certificate Syntax Notation
RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #5: Password Based Encryption (version 1.5)," November 1993
RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #1: RSA Encryption Standard (version 1.5)," November 1993
RSA Laboratories, PKCS #9: Selected Attribute Types
X9.30Part 2: Public Key Cryptography Using Irreversible Algorithms: Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1)
X9.31 Reversible Digital Signature Algorithms
X9.55 Extensions to Public Key Certificates and CRLs
X9.57 Certificate Management
X9.62 Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
Index Terms
ICS Number Code 35.240.80 (IT applications in health care technology)
DOI: 10.1520/E2084-00
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