Technical parameters of QSign applications and products

System requirements
Platform	PC with an Intel Pentium or compatible processor
Operating system	Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP

Certificate level
Certificate for the Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) application issued by the National Security Authority of the Slovak Republic (NSA SR).

Supported algorithms
RSA, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, RIPEMD-160
Signature:	RSA 1024 - 2048 bit
Communication channel encryption:	RSA 1024 - 2048 bit, AES 256 bit

Tokens
PKCS#11 smartcard/token,
PKCS#15 software token

Certificate formatting

Document of the NSA SR (NBÚ SR): Forms of qualified certificates ver. 2.0 ("Formáty kvalifikovaných certifikátov ver. 2.0") http://www.nbusr.sk/ipubliser/files/nbusr.sk/elektronicky-podpis/legislativa/9/formaty_qc.pdf
Certificates according to RFC 3280 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Document of the NSA SR (NBÚ SR): Certificate’s path verification ver. 1.4 ("Kontrola certifikačnej cesty ver. 1.4") http://www.nbusr.sk/ipublisher/files/nbusr.sk/elektronicky-podpis/legislativa/kontrola_cert_cesty.pdf

Electronic signature formatting
Document of the NSA SR (NBÚ SR): Forms of qualified electronic signatures ver. 2.0 ("Formáty zaručených elektronických podpisov ver. 2.0") http://www.nbusr.sk/ipublisher/files/nbusr.sk/elektronicky-podpis/legislativa/9/formaty_zep.pdf ETSI TS 101 733 V1.5.1 Electronic Signature Formats RFC 3369 Cryptographic Message Syntax

Signature policy

Document of the NSA SR (NBÚ SR): Signature policy for QES ver 1.1 ("Podpisové politiky ZEP ver. 1.1") http://www.nbusr.sk/ipublisher/files/nbusr.sk/elektronicky-podpis/legislativa/10/pp_zep.pdf
Document of the NSA SR (NBÚ SR): Signature policy management ver. 1.2 ("Správa podpisových politík ver. 1.2") http://www.nbusr.sk/ipublisher/files/nbusr.sk/elektronicky-podpis/legislativa/10/sprava_pp.pdf

Other supported standards

LDAP v2 , HTTP v1.1, HTTPS,
CRL v2
X.509 v3
CMS (RFC 3369 resp. 3852) - Cryptographic Message Syntax
PKCS #10 v1.7: Certification Request Syntax Standard
PKCS #15 v1.1: Cryptographic Token Information Syntax Standard
PKCS #1 v2.1: RSA Cryptography Standard
PKCS #1 v2.1: RSA Cryptography Standard
Signature Creation Application (SCA) and Signature Verification Systems Audit Methodology Version Draft 2
CWA 14170 -
CWA 14171
RFC 3161 - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3161.html