European Electronic Identity Practices

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European Electronic Identity Practices

• Country Update of
• Estonia
• Speaker
• Ivar Jung
• Date 3 November 2006

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1. Status of National legislation on eID

• Digital signature act from 15. september 2000
• Identity documents law from 1. January 2000

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2. CA organisation

• Responsible CA organisation
• Certification Center
• The background of the organisation
• Private organization owned by 2 telecom companies
  and 2 biggest banks
• Card/ Certificate issuer
• Citizenship and Migration Board
• No. of certificates stored on the eID chip 2
• What access mechanism is used for each private
  key PIN codes

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3. Status of National deployment of eID

• Is the eID card obligatoryYes
• Number of inhabitants 1.5 milion
• Number of eID cards issued as of October 2006 1
  009 725
• Number of certificates activated all
  certificates are activated as standard
• Yearly growth rate (percentage) 12
• The expected number of eIDcards by the end of
  2007 1 120 000

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3. Status on National deployment of eID

• Basic functionalities of the eID card
• Official national ID document? Yes
• European travel document? Yes
• eServices? Yes
• Validity period of the card/certificates 5 years

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3. Status of national deployment of eID

• The price of the card in euros- for the
  citizen 10
• - for the card issuer
• - price for the card reader and software16
  EUR for the cardreader,software is free
• From whom and how can the citizen obtain the
  end/user packages Certification Center is
  managing website where from anybody can install
  software

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4. Interoperability issues

• What is the level of Current Compliance with each
  of the following international standards or group
  activities
• CWA 15264 (eAuthentication) Compliant
• CWA 14890 (eSign) Compliant
• CEN/TS 15480 1,2 (European Citizen Card) Planned
• ISO 19794 Biometric Data Interchange Format
  Part 2 Finger Minutiae Data Planned
• ISO 24727 1,2,3 (ICC programming interfaces)
  Planned
• ICAO 9303 (travel documents) The card is
  compliant

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5. eAuthentication cross border usage and
harmonisation

• Our CA has MOU with Finnish authorities
• working relationship with Belgium authorities
• working relationship with Latvia and Lithuenia

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6. Next steps in your country?

• New physical platform (chip)
• Observation of the need and possibility(s) to use
  biometric data

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7. Future of eID

• What is expected from the Porvoo Group in the
  future?
• Exchange of IDcard progress information in Europe
  and in the world
• Recommendations to EU institutions on IDcard
  matter
• Cooperation network

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8. More information

• Web-pages on eID issues www.id.eewww.sk.ee
• email jung_at_mig.ee
• Thank You!