ПРОБЛЕМИ ПРИ ДЪЛГОСРОЧНОТО СЪХРАНЕНИЕ НА ЕЛЕКТРОННИ ДОКУМЕНТИ, ПОДПИСАНИ С КВАЛИФИЦИРАНИ ЕЛЕКТРОННИ ПОДПИСИ
TITLE SOME ISSUES IN THE LONG-TERM STORAGE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS SIGNED WITH QUALIFIED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES

Summary/Abstract: Electronic documents are an essential and integral part of today‘s digital world. The rapid use of electronic documents in recent years is due to the savings in time and money compared to paper documents. Electronically signed documents are in use in many countries, with their legal value and reliability being ensured by electronic signatures. Qualified electronic signatures (QES) provide the highest level of legal security and are equivalent to a handwritten signature. Qualified electronic signatures are created on the basis of a digital certificate, which is however issued for a certain period of time, and after this period, in order to retain their legal validity and reliability, qualified electronic signatures must be maintained through specialized technologies and processes for long-term storage. The inability to verify the qualified electronic signature after the expiry of the certificate, as well as its other attributes, creates numerous obstacles to the use of electronic documents. This article aims to focus on the problems related to the long-term storage of electronic documents signed with a qualified electronic signature and examines in technical terms the possibilities and levels of electronic signatures, in relation to the adopted EU regulations.

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