ID-card
All electronic services used with the ID-card are also accessible to the users of the digital ID, residence permit card, diplomatic card, and e-Resident’s digital ID, and any instructions applicable to the ID-card also apply to them.
Overview
The visual security elements and design as well as the chip application of ID-cards have been changed over the years. Only the latest ID-software supports the latest ID-cards.
This article is about the new ID-card manufacturer Thales pre-live test cards.
Documentation of different generations of ID-cards: applicable standards and technical documents to review before developing ID-card services.
Information necessary for reading personal data from ID-cards issued since 2018
As of 1 August 2021, the Police and Border Guard Board will be issuing new ID-cards which are equipped with biometric personal data according to the ICAO Doc 9303-1 specification (https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p1_cons_en.pdf). The new ID-card version…
Encryption
In the world of ID-card, encryption means that one or more files requiring encryption are merged into one file with .cdoc extension, which can only be opened by the specified recipients with an ID-cards authentication certificate.
Digital signing
Several signing plugins have been developed for different operating systems and browsers: components and sample applications.
An overview of DigiDoc container formats supported by different versions and components of the ID-software can be found on the DigiDoc container format life cycle page. There is also a sample file for each format.
Identification
Instructions for configuring Windows domain for authentication of users with ID-cards, digital IDs and other digital eID documents
There are two ways to realize personal identification with an ID-card in your e-service: use the certificate authentication built into the browser (TLS client certificate authentication or TLS-CCA) or the new online authentication and signing…
Testing
This article is about testing the ID-cards currently in use which are made by IDEMIA. If you would like more information about the Thales pre-live test cards, you can find it here. To test ID-card…
In order to verify signatures given with test certificates in the DigiDoc4 client, you need to configure the test certificates manually. Otherwise the signature validation check will return the status "Unknown".