Abstract:

 With the expediting of socialization and informationization, egovernment has been ranked by all countries in the strategic prior project. While the development of egovernment bases on the information security, the information security of edocuments becomes an important part of the information security of egovernment. The information security of edocuments refers to the safety protection for the privacy, completeness, availability, controllability and nonrepudiation of the electronic information content. Since edocuments are characteristic of nonartificial directreading, system dependence, separation between information and specific carrier, information diversity, high density storage, multimedia integration and information maneuverability, not only is the edocument content difficult to be safeguarded, but also the credence function is questioned. At the same time, there is possibility that the edocument content is unable to be read although the carrier, software and hardware are all safe and sound, and also there is the danger of edocument information lost or destroyed due to the hacker' s intrusion or virus breakage. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the safeguard of edocument information and prevent the edocument information from being illegally falsified or destroyed. Also more attention should be paid, by analysis of the main factor influencing the security of edocument information in egovernment, and from the three aspects of technology, administration and law, to the probe into the informational safety of edocuments.

Key words: egovernment, edocument, information security