X-Road

Estonian Information Systemss Authority

Rvala 5, 15169 Tallinn, Estonia
The Problem
late 199s

!any information systems

"ery little #a#er$or% in the ba&% offi&e

A lot of #a#er$or% for &iti'ens

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many #ro)e&ts for inter&onne&tin* information

system

se&urity issues +is&usse+

The ,eneral Ar&hite&ture

Distributed architecture (no SPOF)

Properties data integrity, authenticity and

authentication, encryption, reliable, verifiable, scalability
and availability

Neutral using Xroad !ust not change syste!s F"#PS

settings level

$%olevel authori&ation !odel

'oosely coupled services transparent to data !odels,

database(syste! !anage!ent technologies and usage
patterns

X)'based
Government
information
systems
Portals
citizens
enterpreneurs
civil servants
X-Road
centre
RIHA
Estonian
PKI
infrastructure
Internet
X-Road
common component
custom component
*rhitecture of State +S
Ar&hite&ture
Technology Layer Components
,SD'
"DD+
Services
Parential benefit
)y vehicles
)y penalties
SO*P
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'D*P
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Data traffic
Xroad
Security server
-entral server
)+SP
-iti&en portal
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Python
S*P
+nfor!ation
syste!s
$raffic register
Population register
Passports register
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-.Roa+ "ersions
"ersion 1/ 0 (1/ -!1.RP2
"ersion (/ 0 ((/ S3AP RP24en&o+e+
"ersion 5/ 0 (6/ Syn&hronous servi&es
"ersion 6/ 0 (6/ Se&urity u#+ate
"ersion 5/ 0 (1/ S3AP +o&ument4literal
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7"ersion 6/ 0 (168 9e+eration, E:ternal trust
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Information So&iety

-.Roa+ in&lu+es Estonian an+ Euro#ean best

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-.Roa+ #rovi+es e.Servi&es to &iti'ens, to &ivil

servants an+ to enter#reneurs
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2ontinuous im#rovement/// version 6, =///
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