Hungarian judicial officers have established an internationally good precedent by using PKI-based solutions.
In their work, judicial officers have to exchange messages with several parties (e.g. banks, creditors, notaries). These messages are confidential, and their authenticity also needs to be guaranteed. Formerly, judicial officers could fulfill these goals using the registered mail service of the post only. This was a considerably slow and costly procedure.
The Hungarian Chamber of Judicial Officers (Magyar Bírósági Végrehajtói Kamara) recognized that many of their processes can be conducted also in an electronic way, and this could save them both time and a significant amount of financial and human resources. Of course, electronic systems must also assure the confidentiality and authenticity of the messages. Hungarian laws allow the usage of electronically signed warrants.
The first electronic system was started in 2009. This system transmits requests and responses between the judicial officers and the banks. Namely, judicial officers must investigate if the person in question has an account at any bank. Judicial officers thus send letters to the banks and wait for their response. A request contains several documents, and formerly they had to send the whole dossier to each bank. Because of its high expenses, not all of the banks were addressed using such paper-based letters. In the new electronic system, judicial officers create only one electronic dossier with their software, they sign this dossier with a qualified electronic signature, they place a timestamp on it and encrypt the whole dossier. Then judicial officers send this electronic dossier to a transmitter system, which forwards it to all banks. Banks send their response electronically, with an electronic signature. They also send it to the transmitter system, which returns it to the judicial officer. In this system the messages are receipted: addressees create electronic receipts about the reception, and the system returns them to the sender of the original message.
The requests and the answers are XML messages with a fixed format, so they can be processed automatically with computer programs. The clients of the system apply various kind of software from various providers. Judicial officers use specific applications for processing the XML messages. Most of the banks also use automatic tools to create XML messages, but some of them employ administrative people to fulfill the task using a client application.
The requests and the answers are XML messages with a fixed format, so they can be processed automatically with computer programs. The clients of the system apply various kind of software from various providers. Judicial officers use specific applications for processing the XML messages. Most of the banks also use automatic tools to create XML messages, but some of them employ administrative people to fulfill the task using a client application.
In 2010 nearly 400 thousand messages were transmitted, and based on the volume of the messages in January 2011, an ascendant tendency is expected.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In 2010 nearly 400 thousand messages were transmitted, and based on the volume of the messages in January 2011, an ascendant tendency is expected.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In 2010 nearly 400 thousand messages were transmitted, and based on the volume of the messages in January 2011, an ascendant tendency is expected.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
The next step is connecting the judicial officers’ big clients into the above electronic message transmitter system. This is going to start on the spring of 2011.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
In my talk, I will present the lessons learned from the above PKI projects.
The first electronic system was started in 2009. This system transmits requests and responses between the judicial officers and the banks. Namely, judicial officers must investigate if the person in question has an account at any bank. Judicial officers thus send letters to the banks and wait for their response. A request contains several documents, and formerly they had to send the whole dossier to each bank. Because of its high expenses, not all of the banks were addressed using such paper-based letters. In the new electronic system, judicial officers create only one electronic dossier with their software, they sign this dossier with a qualified electronic signature, they place a timestamp on it and encrypt the whole dossier. Then judicial officers send this electronic dossier to a transmitter system, which forwards it to all banks. Banks send their response electronically, with an electronic signature. They also send it to the transmitter system, which returns it to the judicial officer. In this system the messages are receipted: addressees create electronic receipts about the reception, and the system returns them to the sender of the original message.
The requests and the answers are XML messages with a fixed format, so they can be processed automatically with computer programs. The clients of the system apply various kind of software from various providers. Judicial officers use specific applications for processing the XML messages. Most of the banks also use automatic tools to create XML messages, but some of them employ administrative people to fulfill the task using a client application.