Estonia is internationally recognized as an E-state: we have implemented digital signing and e-services, e-government and Digilugu patient portal, e-school, e-voting and much more. In this section you can find a simple summary of various digital solutions available in Estonia.
The timestamping service makes it possible to prove that certain data existed at a certain moment. There are two timestamp service providers in Estonia and RIA also mediates the timestamping service to persons who perform public functions.
Provision of the DigiDoc Service web service will end in October 2020.
Trust service means an electronic service that helps various parties make binding decisions. The exact requirements and conditions of each trust service and the aspects of signing and stamping are determined by the eIDAS.
The purpose of the validity confirmation service, i.e. OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol), is to make it possible to ask about the status of certificates in real time.
The Information System Authority (RIA) provides a central authentication service to the public sector and providers of public services, which allows the owners of e-services to authenticate national and transnational users with various means of identification.
eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services) is the regulation on e-identification and e-transactions effective in the European Union, which is aimed at simplifying of the use of cross-border e-services.
In Estonia, the BDOC format and its two subformats are used for digital signatures, which can be recognised by .bdoc and .asice file extensions.
In Estonia, the term “digital signature” (i.e. digi-signature, digital signing, etc.) refers only to a signature that is legally valid and legally equivalent to a handwritten signature.
Many programs (Microsoft Word, Open Office, Thunderbird, Adobe Reader) offer the possibility to give digital signature/signing the document. Unfortunately these signatures are not legally valid, as there is no validity confirmation. Digital Signature law on paragraph…
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You can configure your @eesti.ee email forwarding using DigiDoc4 client if you have no existing @eesti.ee email forwarding configured. If you have a @eesti.ee forwarding configured, you can use DigiDoc4 client only to view the…
You can see whether your ID-card certificates are valid when you open DigiDoc4. An ID-card cannot be used for electronic acts without valid certificates, e.g. you cannot log in to your bank or sign documents digitally!
Logos and other symbols of electronic identity (eID) can be used free of charge by all providers of e-services. Logos, pictograms, etc. can be found from the eID symbols page on the RIA website.
In an internet-based world, national borders have no protective role: cybercriminals cannot be prevented from “entering”, and legislation in the country of destination will be of little help if the bad guy has not even…
Digital documents (ID-card, digital-ID, e-resident digi - ID , etc.) enable identification of the user in electronic channels.
Did you know that Estonia is the first country in the world to implement e-voting in a nationwide election?
From 2011, all foreign nationals who reside permanently in Estonia must hold an ID-card or residence permit card.
