TV Tokyo Mosate"Will the 'Digital Bill' be watered down? Seal industry opposes"According to the report, the "Digital Procedures Bill," which was approved by the LDP at a subcommittee on March 3 and aims to make administrative procedures 7% online, had a proposal to remove the requirement to register a seal when establishing a corporation, which was included in the original proposal, but was shelved due to opposition from the seal industry. However, it is said that discussions on simplifying the use of seals will be held again at the extraordinary Diet session following the summer House of Councillors election.
This is the request submitted by the printing industry.
Request for the Digital Government Action Plan
According to this,
The plan in question appears to be considering measures that will eliminate the need for seals for the following three major points in moving administrative procedures online. However, as an industry group that manufactures and sells the seals currently used by Japanese citizens, we cannot overlook this.
(Source) Request for the Digital Government Implementation Plan by the All Japan Seal Industry Association and others (2019-02-02)
① Review of the use of seals for identity verification in administrative procedures. [Plan 4.2 Development of system infrastructure (2) Review of identity verification methods, etc.]
② Abolish the requirement to submit a seal when establishing a corporation. [Plan 3.3 Individual Service Reform (7) Making corporation establishment procedures online and one-stop]
3.2) The government will encourage digital transactions that do not require paper documents, as is customarily done between private parties and involve the use of seals and written documents. [Plan 2 Cross-sectional service reform (XNUMX) D. Promoting online private-private procedures]
Apparently, the second one was approved and deleted.1.
I have a few thoughts about this: the relationship between purpose and means.
I think that a seal registration is the registration of an authenticator/credential to authenticate the entity (in this case, a corporation). Since the purpose is to authenticate an entity, the means should be generally available and anything that guarantees a certain level of security should be fine. Also, since security levels change from year to year, the means are not completely unpredictable.2Before doing so, you should move on to the next step.
Well, I'm not a legal expert, but I once asked a legal expert, and he told me that "seal" is not actually defined in the law. This is a wonderful thing. In other words, the law does not define what kind of means "sealing" should be, and it is simply stipulated in the law that "if there is a signature or seal, it is presumed to have been genuinely established" (Civil Procedure Law, Article 228, Paragraph XNUMX).
This is great because it states the purpose and not the means, as all laws should be. The purpose here is to make it "presumably genuine," and what is required of the act of stamping is an act that can be presumed to be performed only by its maker, and is not limited to the act of applying a pigment to a physical medium such as paper with a rough solid object.3
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On the other hand, in terms of confirming the intention of the representative of a corporation, I think it would be more essential than useful to register an entity authentication method that can only be implemented by that representative. Here is my proposal.
Verify the security of the encryption,CRYPTRECShould be adopted"Electronic Government Recommended Cipher List"How about forming a "Stamping Method Safety Verification Committee" to scientifically verify safety and compatibility, create and publish a "List of Certified Stamping Methods," and have corporations choose one of the methods on the list and register it as their seal?
As you know, the three-dimensional solid object known as a stamp, which is in common use, can be made with modern technology to be exactly like the original, so it is unreasonable to assume that only the person who uses it can use it. In other words, it has become completely "endangered."4However, it may be possible that some kind of technological innovation will improve authentication performance. In that case, there is no need to eliminate it. I hope that all members of the Seal Association will continue to work hard to improve technology.
Of course, the most appropriate method at the current technological level would be a signature using public key cryptography.5I think the most appropriate solution would be to register your public key.6However, there is no reason to limit it to that, and the newly developed new high-performance seal7I think it's okay to have that.In the special Diet session following the summer House of Councillors election, there will be discussions on simplifying the use of seals.By all meansWe would like to ask you to make arrangements so that seal registration can be done by selecting from the "certified seal method list" created by the "Seal Method Safety Verification Committee."Thing.
In addition, Request for the Digital Government Action Plan It's a very interesting document. There are many points to comment on throughout the book, but even if you divide it into parts,
Unlike the signature system in the West, the ability of seals to make proxy payments leads to quicker decision-making and approval, and we are proud that this has contributed to Japan's rapid development after the war.
(Source) Request for the Digital Government Implementation Plan by the All Japan Seal Industry Association and others (2019-02-02)
This is a statement that makes you think, "That's a suicidal act," even if you don't realize that you wrote "decision" as "settlement" in an official document like this. The reason for this is that,记事8Please refer to this, but I have some timely news that I think basically sums it up.
It looks like you're doing well.
footnote
- It doesn't make sense to me that this was removed so easily, but the illegal downloading wasn't.
- Something that was previously safe has become dangerous and unusable due to technological advances or other reasons.
- According to a person who researched this case, "In fact, seals appear quite often in procedural laws. When searching the laws in September 29.9, the words "seal" (32), "stamp" (133), "seal impression" (34), "impression" (590), and "impression" (14) were all mixed together ("impression" (0)). However, it does not say what kind of stamp should be used."
- Previously, the replication technology was immature, so a certain degree of safety was ensured, but technological innovation has made it dangerous, so it is in danger.
- The name or picture that is left when a seal is pressed on paper or a document.
- It does not have to be a certificate issued by a so-called certification authority. It can simply be a public key that you generated yourself. The act of registering a seal itself is a registration, and it can be verified using this registry.
- For example, a seal that has a built-in high-performance clock and can dynamically create ultra-high resolution impressions. The impression is made by creating a signature using public key cryptography from a string that is a concatenation of an input document number and the time extracted from the clock, and then converting that signature into a QR code, creating a seal in the same shade of gray and vermilion, with the vermilion parts forming the character of a name.
- Redesign of Sign "Is the 'characteristic of a seal that allows proxy payments' legally recognized?" (2019-03-09) https://www.cloudsign.jp/media/20190309-syomeidairi/