UBITECH has been awarded a new contract by RENAPER (Registro Nacional de las Personas) of the Ministry of Interior and Transport of the Republic of Argentina, so as to extent the functionalities provided by the Secure Data and Documents Exchange Platform of the organization (already implemented, delivered and set in productive operation by UBITECH). This new contract includes the design and implementation of the appropriate software infrastructure that will be integrated in the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform, so as to provide the public servants of the civil-status offices and third party officials (like judges in courts) with secure mobile services for the real time examination of the originality, authenticity, validity and integrity of any printouts of digitally-signed civil-status certificates – that are generated by the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform, delivered electronically to the citizen and handed out by the citizen in the course of a public administration process.
For this purpose, the adoption of the two-dimensional barcode (2D-barcode) techniques has been advised, enabling the storage of all crucial information of the digitally-signed civil-status certificates (including but not limited to the issuer name, the issuing data and place, and a subset of the personal data of the citizen appeared on the PDF document). In particular, each time a civil-status certificate is issued and digitally signed (in the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform), a unique identification code will be generated based on the digital certificate used to sign a given civil-status certificate. This unique identification code along with the aforementioned subset of data appeared on the certificate will be encrypted, transformed into QR code and imprinted on the PDF file of the digitally-signed civil-status certificate. This 2D barcode will be decrypted by a cross-platform mobile application to be developed and distributed only to authorized public servants, allowing only authorized personnel to be able to check whether the data appeared on the document are modified by the citizen (data integrity control) and to examine the validity of the digital signature (originality and authenticity check).
