On June 8th 2022, in San Francisco, Eurosmart received a certification award for the Protection Profile Certificate PP-0117 delivered by the German Federal Cybersecurity Authority (BSI). During a ceremony organized by TeleTrusT (IT Security Association) at the German Consulate General, BSI President Mr Schönbohm handed...
Eurosmart’s feedback As underlined by President von der Leyen's State of the Union 2021 address, the EU should become a worldwide leader in terms of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is of utmost importance for the EU; it is at the same time a matter of European industrial policy,...
They used to be a piece of paper easily torn. They have now the size and the texture of a credit card. Driving licences in Europe have kept evolving for the past decades. Today, the European Commission envisages revising the legislation on driving licences to...
The EU eIDAS expert group working on eIDAS 2.0 published on February 22nd, the European Digital Identity Architecture and Reference Framework (the “ARF”). Eurosmart's members have collectively reviewed this document and provided the EU eIDAS expert group with an exhaustive list of comments (the commenting table is...
This year, the Digital Europe programme will fund major projects in the field of digital identity. The programme will give a concrete shape to the legislative proposal establishing a European Digital Identity Framework (eIDAS 2). The first concrete initiative is a call for proposals the Commission...
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) completed the certification of Eurosmart’s PP-0117 Protection Profile for Secure Sub-System in System-on-Chip (3S in SoC). The PP-0117 version 1.5 has been evaluated at an approved evaluation facility using the Common Methodology for IT Security Evaluation (CEM) for...
Disclaimer: Eurosmart can confirm the resilience in 2021 of the Secure Elements market despite the current pandemic and chip shortage.We take the opportunity to comment on key drivers and trends for 2021 and extending into 2022.However, and due to the forementioned uncertainties, we have chosen...
The European Parliament invited the President of Eurosmart to participate in a public hearing on the revision of eIDAS. The event will be held on 3 February from 9:00 to 11:00. Alban Feraud will address the MEPs from the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)....
In this new publication, Eurosmart explains that the advent of quantum computers would be a significant threat to the security of identity documents. Such an advent might seem distant, but current research shows that progress is taking place at a fast pace. The question is...
ETSI recently published a technical specification on identity proofing in the context of eIDAS trust services[1]. This document was prepared by its ESI technical committee, supported by a Specialist Task Force (STF 588). This technical specification answers a security gap in the current eIDAS framework for...
