Keys of enhanced qualified electronic digital signature: development issue of criminal legislation

Introduction: the article deals with problematic issues on circulation and the use of an enhanced qualified digital signature through the prism of crime. Materials and Methods: the specifics to enhanced qualified electronic digital signature became the methodological basis of this article. General scientific methods of cognition: the historical and legal method, generalization, comparison and special scientific methods of cognition, presented by the data of criminal statistics, the study of arbitration practice were applied. Results: the author carried out the analysis of problematic issues in obtaining and using keys of an enhanced qualified digital signature, formulated a number of proposals for improving the criminal legislation. Discussion and Conclusions: in the course of the study, the author concluded that the current legislation in electronic signatures contains a number of contradictory norms that create conditions for violation of law in this area by employees of certification centers. In this regard, the author's position on the formulation of a separate criminal law norm establishing responsibility for these violations has been substantiated.