XAdES & CAdES Interoperability Tests

After the success of the first remote plugtest event, ETSI has developed the supporting Remote Plugtest Portal, which now offers on-line PKI-related services (Certificates provision, OCSP server, LDAP and Time-stamp).

ETSI is organizing two new REMOTE INTEROPERABILITY PLUGTESTS.

The purposes of these events are:

• To consolidate solutions to already identified interoperability issues of XAdES.
• To enable participants to assess the level of interoperability of CAdES.
• To identify additional issues that should be taken into account in future CAdES /XAdES standardization activities.
• To improve the quality of XAdES/CAdES specifications.
• To ease the introduction of XAdES/CAdES signatures, by providing the means to solve interoperability problems before widespread deployment.

The event will evaluate (X-C)AdES interoperability by focusing on all the different XAdES forms standardized in ETSI TS 101 903 and ETSI 101 733, including (X-C)AdES-BES, (X-C)AdES-EPES, (X-C)AdES-T, (X-C)AdES-C, (X-C)AdES-X Type 1, (X-C)AdES-X Type 2, (X-C)AdES-XL and (X-C)AdES-A.
Participants will also be able to generate new test case definitions and signatures, which will be taken into consideration for extending the test cases set according to ETSI’s discretion.