Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN

Will “Verifiable Credentials” replace X.509 certificates in the future?

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X.509 certificates have been around for over 40 years. They are used for the identification of subjects (web servers, persons, etc.). They are…

6 reasons against a central state identity provider

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The Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) presents three different technical scenarios in its "E-ID target picture" . One of them is…

Connecta 2021 looks to the future

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The ongoing pandemic left the organisers of Connecta no other choice this year: The event on digitalisation, which is well-known beyond the borders…

Centralised or decentralised identity?

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In recent years, the term "decentralised identity" has appeared more and more frequently in discussions about electronic identities. This is…

Self-Sovereign-Identity – from vision to today

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A few years have passed since Christopher Allen's vision of Self-Sovereign Identities. What has remained of the original vision of "SSI" and…
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The digital wallet is coming

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"Who invented it?" is a popular Swiss saying. In the case of the eID, the question must be: Who threw it away? The EU is implementing a new eID…