Accepting arbitrary electronic identity cards (eIDs) and similar authenticators in cloud and web applications has been a challenging task. Thanks to the multiply awarded 'SkIDentity Service' this has changed recently. This versatile authentication infrastructure combines open technologies, international eID standards and ...

An important future application of the German electronic health card (elektronische Gesundheitskarte, eGK) is the national Personal Health Record (PHR), because it enables a citizen to store and retrieve sensitive medical data in a secure and self-determined manner. As the stored data is encrypted with an eGK- specific ...

The present article provides a compact overview of the most important requirements of the so-called “Payment Services Directive 2” (PSD2) [Di15], together with the related Regulatory Technical Standard on authentication and communication [Eu17] according to Article 98, and outlines how the pivotal “Access-to-Account-Interface” ...

As more than half of the EU Member States already have rolled out electronic identity cards (eIDs) [Le13], it seems to be a rewarding approach to investigate whether and how eIDs may be used for the purpose of controlling the log-on process for operating systems and similar local access control facilities. While this ...

Against the background of the regulation 2014/910/EU [EU1] on electronic identification (eID) and trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS), the FutureTrust project, which is funded within the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) under Grant Agreement No. ...

Open Source Software (OSS) has immensely increased in popularity over the years and it is well known, that software with public access to the sources is on average less error prone than closed source software, especially if the project is supported by a large community which peer reviews the sources [Kua02]. For new and ...

We present the SAML Privacy-Enhancing (PE) profile which empowers users to take control of the authentication process and their personal data. Users have the full control of the application flow and get detailed information about the involved participants and the revealed attributes. This enables users to give informed ...

The present paper introduces an extensible client platform, which can be used for eID, electronic signatures and many more smart card enabled applications.

To preserve the legal validity and conclusiveness of qualified electronic signatures and qualified electronic seals over long periods of time it is necessary to apply appropriate preservation techniques. The present contribution provides an overview of the corresponding standards for long-term preservation of digital ...