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* remove terms and conditions disclosure

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* remove aditional section on practice statement

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* restore some sections after PR feedback

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document. Such a policy shall incorporate or further constrain the requirements
identified in this document.

If an accuracy of better than 1 second is provided by a TSA and if all the TSUs
have that same characteristics, then the accuracy shall be indicated in the
TSA's disclosure statement (see section [7.1.2](#712-tsa-disclosure-statement)
that each time-stamp token is issued with an accuracy of better than 1 second.

NOTE 2: It is required that a time-stamp token includes an identifier
NOTE 1: It is required that a time-stamp token includes an identifier
for the applicable policy (see section [7.3.1](#731-time-stamp-token)).

## 5.2. Identification
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## 6.3. Relying Party Obligations

The terms and conditions made available to relying parties
(see section [7.1.2](#712-tsa-disclosure-statement) shall include an obligation
on the relying party that, when relying on a time-stamp token, it shall:
The terms and conditions made available to relying parties shall include an
obligation on the relying party that, when relying on a time-stamp token, it shall:

1. verify that the time-stamp token has been correctly signed and that the
private key used to sign the time-stamp has not been compromised
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external organizations supporting the TSA services including
the applicable policies and practices.

- The TSA shall make available to subscribers and relying parties its
practice statement, and other relevant documentation, as necessary,
to assess conformance to the time-stamp policy.
- The TSA may make available to subscribers and relying parties its practice
statement, and other relevant documentation, as necessary, to assess
conformance to the time-stamp policy.

NOTE 2: The TSA is not generally required to make all the details
of its practices public.

- The TSA shall disclose to all subscribers and potential relying parties
the terms and conditions regarding use of its time-stamping services as
specified in section [7.1.2](#712-tsa-disclosure-statement).

- Maintainers of the TSA shall have final authority for approving the TSA
practice statement and ensuring that the practices are properly implemented.
Maintainers shall also review any changes to the TSA to confirm that they
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statement and shall, following approval as in (f) above, make the revised
TSA practice statement immediately available as required under (d) above.

### 7.1.2. TSA Disclosure Statement

The TSA shall disclose to all subscribers and potential relying parties
the terms and conditions regarding use of its time-stamping services.
This statement shall at least specify for each time-stamp policy
supported by the TSA:

- The TSA contact information.

- The time-stamp policy being applied.

- At least one hashing algorithm which may be used to represent the datum
being time-stamped. (No hash algorithm is mandated).

- The expected life-time of the signature used to sign the time-stamp token
(depends on the hashing algorithm being used, the signature algorithm being
used and the private key length).

- The accuracy of the time in the time-stamp tokens with respect to UTC.

- Any limitations on the use of the time-stamping service.

- The subscriber's obligations as defined in section
[6.2](#62-subscriber-obligations), if any.

- The relying party's obligations as defined in section
[6.3](#63-relying-party-obligations).

- Information on how to verify the time-stamp token such that the relying
party is considered to "reasonably rely" on the time-stamp token
(see section [6.3](#63-relying-party-obligations))
and any possible limitations on the validity period.

## 7.2. Key Management Life Cycle

### 7.2.1. TSA Key Generation
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security policy or manual) should identify all relevant targets,
objects and potential threats related to the services provided and
the safeguards required to avoid or limit the effects of those
threats, consistent with the Risk Assessment required under
section [7.1.1a](#711-tsa-practice-statement)). It should describe the
rules, directives and procedures regarding how the specified services and
the associated security assurance are granted in addition to stating
policy on incidents and disasters.
threats. It should describe the rules, directives and procedures regarding
how the specified services and the associated security assurance are granted
in addition to stating policy on incidents and disasters.

- TSA shall ensure that the security of information is maintained when the
responsibility for TSA functions has been outsourced to another
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System Planning:

1. Capacity demands shall be monitored and projections of future capacity r
equirements made to ensure that adequate processing power
and storage are available.
1. Capacity demands shall be monitored and projections of future capacity
requirements made to ensure that adequate processing power and storage
are available.

Incident reporting and response:

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