Eidas

The European Union has been looking forward to the rollout of a verified, cross-border digital identity for years now. The European Commission has seen the spread of digital commerce as well as its integration with social media and has rightly deduced that new systems and protections are required as we…

An article in response to a Dutch news item on nu.nl, where concerns are expressed about the plans for a European Identity wallet: https://www.nu.nl/tech/6204382/kabinet-en-tweede-kamer-hebben-bezwaren-tegen-europese-digitale-identiteit.html The European Union wants us all to get an Identity Wallet. A digital wallet with digital space for a digital driver’s license, a digital library card…

In 2021 the European Commission announced the European digital identity wallet. This article explains the basic concepts, highlights the significance of this development and provides an overview of the status quo. The vast majority of citizens regularly use the internet. According to statista, for 16–24-year-olds, the European average of daily…

In June 2021, the EU Commission presented a new draft on eIDAS regulation. The aim is to provide all citizens and businesses in the EU with digital wallets with which they can not only identify and authenticate themselves, but also store a variety of other documents (such as diplomas) and…

Right after our first webinar, we caught up with Joseph Thompson, the CEO of AID:Tech to get his thoughts on the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) space and its impact on our society over the next few years. Here are some questions we asked him. What’s exciting about verifiable credentials? Not many people today understand the importance…

One of the challenges when conducting business online is to identify yourself and to be able to prove certain aspects of your identity. But the need to identify yourself actually predates online businesses. Societies and communities have since ancient times used some form of identity documents to prove an aspect…

This article explains what a wallet is, how it works and how you can use it for managing your digital identity. While there are also wallets for institutions, this article only focuses on wallets for end users. …

Summary and introduction “Dr Hans Kluge, director for the WHO European region, warned countries beginning to ease their lockdown restrictions that now is time for preparation, not celebration”. Thankfully we did most of this before anybody had heard of Covid-19 by laborious work on making an implementation friendly and ready requirement specification. Once…

What is Public Key Infrastructure? Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is often described as a set of rules, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption, as a back-end cybersecurity measure. What is it used for? PKI is witnessing increasing popularity…