Development of a Web Service for Digital Document Signing

Student: Katunin Andrey

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Computer Systems and Networks (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

The master's final qualification work is devoted to the development of a web service for electronic and digital document signing. The purpose of this work is to provide a guaranteed possibility of digital signature and verification of electronic documents. The main tasks of the work are: analysis and research of methods and technologies used at all stages of the life cycle of objects of observation; reasonable choice of software development methodology; software development in the framework of electronic document signing. The web service is developed using cryptographic utilities CryptoPro JCP and supports a variety of signature formats of the CadES standard. The web service has a REST API that allows you to interact with third-party systems, both external and internal (corporate information systems). The module that performs electronic signing is developed in the Java programming language version 8. The result of the final qualification work is to automate the process of signing electronic documents and provide this functionality for further use and expansion.

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