There is as high need to digitize and automatize business processes as well as to preserve the created electronic records for 2 up to 100 years or more to make business transactions evident against third parties. This requirement is not only mandatory for public administrations but also private companies especially in ...

While the generation of qualified electronic signatures traditionally required the use of local qualified electronic signature creation devices (QSCD) in form of smart cards for example, the eIDAS-Regulation [EU14] introduced the promising option for Hardware Security Module (HSM) based QSCDs and remote signature protocols, ...

University domain/scenario use cases based on eIDAS eID & eSignature extended user service accounts are implemented in the EU CEF projects TREATS and StudIES+, integrating hybrid ID concepts (legacy & eID). eNotar services will offer to integrate legacy binding in process and document flows, transfers to other areas are ...

Trust infrastructures are at the heart of a digital world. Within those trust infrastructures, trust schemes play an important role and often represent legal or organizational entities. Right now, trust schemes are published in the form of lists. Those lists enumerate all the trust services and their level of assurance. ...

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 ...

The present paper provides an overview of existing protocols and infrastructures for Identity Management on the Internet and discusses potential paths towards integrating the different approaches in a user centric manner into a “Universal Login” infrastructure, which allows Users to manage their authentication preferences ...

In this paper current developments in mobile identities are described. A scalable architecture, standard future-proven technologies such as ISO/IEC 23220 and a Cryptographic Service Provider build the framework for secure, failsafe and large deployments. The building blocks specified in ISO/IEC 23220 deliver a framework ...

With the help of eIDAS [Re14], legislators have created a resilient framework in EU and EFTA to place trustworthy digital transactions more and more in the centre of business relationships. The regulated use of the trust services (e.g. qualified electronic signature or seal etc.) as well as that of the secure electronic ...

This paper is concerned with the question of how to obtain the highest possible assurance on trust policy decisions: when accepting an electronic transaction of substantial value or significant implications, we want to be sure that this did not happen because of a bug in a policy checker. Potential bugs include bugs in ...

Decentralized approaches towards digital identity management, often summarized under the currently popular term Self-sovereign identity (SSI) are being associated with high hopes for a bright future of identity management (IdM). Numerous private, open source as well as publicly funded research initiatives pursue this ...