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Customer Profile The Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry (COSCCI, www.saudichambers.org.sa) Business Situation Paper-based forms proved to be inefficient, time consuming and last, but not least insecure. Customers of COSCCI were requesting alternatives to time consuming trips to government agencies. Handling paper forms and repetitive data entry took time away. Solution Description The COSCCI introduced an Electronic Authentication System - based on a solution provided by House of Development with signing components of SOFTPRO. Signature characteristics are captured on a tablets and Tablet PCs, stored and verified using Softpro's SignWare® thus securing the authenticity and integrity of created documents. |
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Software and Services
• Operating Systems: Linux and Microsoft Windows
• Database: Oracle
• Signature Capturing and Verification: Softpro's SignWare® SDK
• Web Services using Microsoft Internet Explorer as a browse
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Trips to government agencies - along with the associated time and inconveniences - are now a thing of the past in Saudi Arabia. The E-Authentication System now enables registered users to write, sign and get documents attested by government agencies or private organizations from the comfort of their office or home via Internet around the clock. They simply have to use a writing tablet, pen pad or Tablet PC. A Microsoft ActiveX component running in Microsoft's Internet Explorer provides the interface to the signature pad. SOFTPRO's signature verification technology has been encapsulated into the so-called SignWare® SDK consisting of Dynamic Link Libraries and running on a Windows 32 server platform.
The COSCCI begun testing the system in Riyadh, Jeddah and Khubar - three of the Chamber of Commerce's key locations. The initial step for subscribers of this service is to enroll their signature biometrics, along with personal data in the presence of an authorized person in those locations. Their signature biometrics are captured by a pressure sensitive pen pad and stored in the central reference database. The system uses an Oracle database and a J2EE compliant application server on a Linux operating system, providing high level encryption for dynamic and static signature verification. An electronic stamp within the bar code on each document ensures the authenticity of the data beyond commonly accepted security standards. With the system being in place it is almost impossible to pass a document with a forged signature as it is impossible for two people to have the same signature characteristics. At authentication static features (such as upstrokes line crossings and curves) and dynamic characteristics (such as the speed of signing and the pressure applied when writing) are captured and verified. e-Authentication will be implemented now at COSCCIs offices nation-wide, making it one of the first public entities in Saudi Arabia to offer secure authentication in e-government services. |
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| House of Development (www.hod.com.sa, HOD) is provider of IT Solutions based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - incepted in 1994. HOD provides Package Implementation and Custom Development of software application systems. HOD has also been an ASP (Application Service Provider) for more than 20 years. |
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The immediate digitizing of signatures throughout the writing process using a tablet or Tablet PC offers security on a higher level compared to signatures captured on paper. Throughout the capturing process more information of a signature is extracted than meets the eye. These additional characteristics are completing the data set of the static signature image with biometric characteristics of a signature such as writing pressure and writing speed. Every signature is unique. The unique combination of verification of static and dynamic signature characteristics deals with the natural variations of a signer's signatures. |
| Press Releases after Presentation at Middle East Financial Technology Exhibition in Bahrain, November 2004 |
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