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  • EMT, Elion Stores Issue New Mobile ID SIM Cards
    20.03.2020

    As of this week, EMT and Elion stores issue new Mobile ID SIM cards to all Mobile ID subscribers.   Previously, Police and Border Guard Board allowed issuing Mobile IDs for three years. As of…

  • SHA-256 hash algorithm was adopted in the certificates of Estonian personal identity documents
    20.03.2020

    Effective 1 December 2014, digital ID and e-Residency digital ID card certificates are issued using the SHA-256 hash algorithm. The issuance of certificates for the ID card, residence permit card and Mobile ID using the…

  • Important information for Mobile-ID users
    20.03.2020

    Since 1/1/2015, the PBGB has been issuing digital identity cards in the form of Mobile-ID (Mobiil-ID) for a term of validity of up to five years.  In order to get a Mobile-ID with the maximum…

  • New Java digital signing library available for integrators – digidoc4j
    20.03.2020

    In December the first version of new Java digital signing library was released. The digidoc4j library is intended to replace the current JDigiDoc Java library.  The first release supports digital signing of ASiC-E XAdES/BDOC 2.1 (BDOC with time-stamp and…

  • Starting today, the default file format in ID-card software is BDOC
    20.03.2020

    Today the Information Systems Authority (RIA) will publish the ID-card software version 3.10, which uses BDOC as a default digital signature format. This step will replace the previous DDOC file format with BDOC. The head…

  • We give BDOC signatures as of 2015
    20.03.2020

    We have been giving digital signatures in DDOC format since 2002 in Estonia. Users have been able to give digital signatures in BDOC format with the Digidoc client application already from the end of 2013…

  • Developer newsletter #6
    20.03.2020

    This Sertifitseerimiskeskus developer newsletter contains important information regarding new ID-software version and soon to be renewed Mobiil-ID service. Also you will find information regarding changes to ID-software development and on how to test new SK…

  • ID-software 3.10 beta versions are available for testing
    20.03.2020

    ID-software beta-versions are now available for download in https://github.com/open-eid environment. All software components on GitHub page have a binary package available under relevant “releases” section. Beta software installation packages for Windows and OS X users:  Windows : https://github.com/open-eid/windows-installer/releases OS…

  • Digital signing with Chrome web browser will radically change in April 2015 (updated)
    20.03.2020

    All e-service providers have to implement new digital signing module to allow digital signing with ID-card in Chrome web browser. New hwcrypto.js JavaScript web signing component ready. Starting from Chrome version 42 (expected to be…

  • DigiDoc3 client application is using international Trusted Service Status Lists (TSL)
    20.03.2020

    Starting from DigiDoc3 client version 3.10 the certificate trustworthiness for documents in BDOC/ASiC-E format is determined with TSL lists (Trust Service Status List).  The TSL list complies with ETSI TS 119 612 standard. TSL list…