SSDG

SSDG (State e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway) is the initiative taken by the Department Of Information & Technology, Government of India at the State level. At the central level it has a NSDG (National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway). So all the gateways at the states and the center forms a Constellation of Gateways.

SSDG is standard based Messaging and routing Switch which provide seamless interoperability and exchange of data across the departments.

Vision

  • Standard based messaging and routing switch
  • Nation-wide Gateway Constellation
  • Envisaged as constellation of National and State data center level Gateways
  • Single Window service delivery
  • Independent of time, place and technology
  • Separation of Front end citizen interfacing with departmental service delivery
  • Facilitator of Public-Private-Partnership with CSC to interface with citizen and department to focus on services
  • Facilitate in evolving Departmental workflow

Key Benefits

  • Set of reusable modular Components
  • Vendor-independent data interoperability
  • SOAP, XML
  • Cost effective and faster way for connecting legacy back-office systems
  • Always ON service with capacity to handle large volumes
  • Reduction due to repeatable approach
    • Project delivery Time Scales, Cost of implementation
    • Risk

Other Features

  • Compliance of eGovernance standards
    • IIP, IIS, IGIS & GCSS
  • Compliance to Web Standards
    • SOAP1.2, HTTP 1.1, XML 1.0
  • Open source tools
  • Information Security Management System as per ISO 27001

PKI Implementation

  • Two layered implementation for Authentication, Authorization, Integrity & security
    • Client Authentication (bi-directional) SSL for security during communication
    • W3C XML signature based authentication, authorization & integrity
  • Compliance to W3C XML signature standard
  • Client Authentication based SSL
  • Solution designed for minimum performance impact

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