- The owners of ID cards issued after 1 March 2016 may encounter problems with using e-services
ID cards (including Digi-ID, residence permit card, e-Resident's Digi-ID card) issued after 1 March 2016 are based on the stronger cryptography. The owners of new cards may encounter problems with using some e-services, if the ESTEID-SK 2015 intermediate certificate has not been correctly set up in these services. See below the list of existing e-services.
- The ID software version 3.12 has been released
On 1 February 2016 the ID software version 3.12 was released. It is a regular release that contains multiple improvements and fixes.
- Digital signing in the BDOC/ASiC formats and digital signature validity check is disrupted in DigiDoc3 Client (Solved!)
The error is solved in the ID-software version 3.12, please download new version from installer.id.ee . Mac OS X users should download the latest DigiDoc3 client from Apple App Store .
- E-service providers are asked to implement the use of more secure encryption
Based on the Estonian Information System Authority’s requirement to restrict the use of SHA-1 hash algorithms, the Police and Border Guard has ordered, and the Certification Center Ltd. has implemented, the use of a new ESTEID intermediate certificate, and upon its implementation in the near future, end-consumer certificates based on more secure encryption algorithms will start to be issued.
- Info for integrators: SK OCSP service to use SHA-256 algorithm for response signing
As of 16 February 2016, SK’s OCSP services shall use the SHA-256 algorithm for response signing instead of the SHA-1 hash algorithm.
- Info for integrators: SK time-stamping service to restrict the use of SHA-1 and SHA-224
- New version of DigiDoc4j library
In November, new version 1.0.0 of DigiDoc4j library was released.
- SK's test-OCSP responder and test-DigiDocService have new URLs!
SK is renewing test environment and due to that some changes apply. There is a new URL for test-OCSP and test DigiDocService and also for certificate upload.
- For some e-services digital signing with the ID-card doesn't work in Chrome 45
The release of Chrome 45 has caused problems with digital signing in some e-services. As a temporary solution, it has been suggested to use a different browser or to sign documents with Mobile-ID.
- Developers newsletter #9
This is the latest Sertifitseerimiskeskus developer newsletter containing important information about the changes in signing in Chrome and redirecting feature in Windows 10 new browser Edge.