Sertifitseerimiskeskus will renew the DigiDoc portal ( digidoc.sk.ee ) on 13 June. As a result, digital signatures will be created in the new BDOC format by default, instead of the previous DDOC format.

Estonian and Finnish Prime Ministers Andrus Ansip and Jyrki Katainen signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) digitally. The MoU regards two countries’ information and communication technologies. To our knowledge, this is the world’s first digitally signed international agreement; it was signed using ID cards.

The most widely used secure Internet communication standard TLS (Transport Layer Security) has an optional client certificate authentication feature that in theory has significant security advantages over HTML form-based password authentication.

Watch a simple and smart video explaining the essence of digital signature.

The Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) invites people whose ID-card or residence card was issued in 2011 to service offices of the PBGB to renew the electronic component of their document. People who do not use their ID-card for electronic purposes do not have to renew the document.

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Estonia solves the problems of identity security on the Internet. The three-year FutureID project funded by the European Union focuses on solving the identity security issues on the Internet. 18 partners from 11 countries participate in the project besides Estonia.

Forte went to become acquainted with the printing house where our ID-cards get our faces attached to them.

Starting from today, all interested persons can join a customer loyalty program of Prisma Peremarket called Prisma Konto, granting a bonus of up to 5% on purchases. The system is ID-card based and free for all customers.

Currently over 98 million documents are already signed with digital signatures, and this number is only increasing. The available statistics allows concluding that one of the Estonian ID card holders will put one hundred millionth digital signature already in the first half of December