DIGITAL CERTIFICATION AND ARCHIVOLOGY

BENEFITS AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract

Information Society has opened up new fields and opportunities, and the information in digital networks has gained dimensions without borders, emerging the need for security politics in order to guarantee data authentication, privacy, authorization and integrity. The solution found to solving those problems was the use of a cryptography system. Brazilian government has created technical standards to support a cryptographic system called Brazilian Infrastructure of Public Keys (ICP-Brasil). The legal value of this document's authenticity relates to the digital signatures. Under the optics of archivistics and diplomatics, the authenticity of the documents does not depend only on the signature, but on a set of elements. This paper intends to analyze the digital certification market in the city of Manaus, under the optics of Archivology, that is, the authenticity and secrecy in digital documents. Methodologically, it refers to a qualitative-nature research, with descriptive-exploratory characteristics, made on a case study and because it has a defined objective. It sought evaluating if the certificating authorities own mainframes to assure the safety and the transaction of the digital documents in the city of Manaus-AM. As a result, it observed that the financial sector was the first one to utilize digital certificate, followed by the fiscal sector, which came to prominence with the electronic fiscal note, and later by the judiciary sector with the electronic process, which at the same time was responsible for enhancing the number of attorneys using digital signature. It has verified that the application of digital certification on information registered in digital supports guarantees authenticity, confidentiality and integrity. However, in order for this to happen, it is necessary to observe the norms and standards established by the ICP-Brasil. The use of digital certificate to the Archivology aggregates value as much for documental management as for the preservation of permanent documents.