Referat durch Hans-Jörg Widiger, Mitglied der Gruppenleitung, Leiter Business Unit Banking und Access, Trüb AG

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e-Estonia – The Digital Society supported by Trüb
Hans-Jörg Widiger
Geschäftsleitung Trüb

2. 153 years Trüb
23.08.2013
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GOVERNMENTAL SOLUTIONS BANKING SOLUTIONS ACCESS SOLUTIONS
Our VISION
Trüb is a worldwide leading and innovative company in development,
production, integration and management of identity solutions.

3. Population: 1.3 Million
Size: 45 227 km²
Capital: Tallinn
Language: Estonian
Member of EU
Currency: Euro
GDP: 15.973 EUR in billions
Since 2001: Trüb produces the Estonian eID

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History of Estonian eID
 1997 The eID project started
 1999, Feb. Law on digital personal identification
 2000, May Government accepted plan for launching ID-card
 2002, Jan 28th First card issued at price of 20 Euro
 2007 Price reduction to 6 Euro
 2006, Oct. 1 000 000th card issued

5.  2000: Launch of e-Tax Board
 2000: Launch of m-Parking
 2003: Launch of ID bus ticket
 2005: i-Voting was introduced
 2007: Launch of e-Police system
 2008: Launch of e-Health system
 2010: Launch of e-Prescription
 2011: Smart Grid introduced
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History of Estonian eID
e-Banking
e-School
ID-Ticket
State Portal
Digital Signature
Land Register
Business Register
e-Police
i-Voting
e-Health
e-Pension Account
Tax and Customs
Board
Customer Self Service Portals

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eID Citizen Portal
 Citizen web-portal with information and access to all eID services
 Direct Control by any citizen on eID access of any party
Transactions
Requests
Access by any party
State guarentee to answer in 6 days
 Help Desk 1770
5000 – 6000 calls/month
Helpdesk-Ticktes: 30% PIN and 70% Software
 2007 mobile eID was launghed with 3% penetration today

7. 10 years after launching
Estonia is a eID society
2012, Aug 12th:
 1 205 189 active cards
 125 047 773 digital signatures
 204 910 826 electronic authetications
 http://www.id.ee

8. e-Tickets
Population Registry
Mobile
Internet
Cash
Person must possess
and show an
ID-card when buying
or verifying a ticket
Fixed-line
Example Public Transport

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 Information shown physically on the card
 Information on chip
Certificate for authentication X509 with minimal subjects
o Name
o Socialnumber
o Date of validity
o e-mail address Forename.Surname@eesti.ee
Certificate for digital signature
What does eID contain?

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X Road – The backbone of Estonias eID
 600 connected organisations
 110 data bases integrated
 225 Mio transactions in 2010
 2084 bit encryption for all data

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Security
 PKI-Application for authentication and digital signatur
 Keeping Identity (certificate) in a highsecure
cryptochip with asymetric encoding, which hinders
copy, duplication or change of identity
 Access on eID via two Passwords: Authentication
PIN1, digital signatur PIN2
 Direct controll by citizen on own data + data access
 ID Card Lock by dialing policenumber
 Decentral Databases
 Fine of up to 100 Years prison for missusing eID

12. Estonian eID success is more
than a technical innovation
Internet access in Estonia
is a social right

13. Some Success Factors
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 Forward carrier Internet In the 90th Internet was identified as the forward
carrier for Estonia
 PPP since 1997 Public Private Partnership – broad input from all
stakeholders
 State employees use eID as only access token for all services and
duties (gov created supply and demand)
 eID is mandatory the only mandatory document in Estonia from
the age of 15
 Digital Public Register were consequently established

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Some Success Factors
 Driving-Applications Tax Decleration and Online Banking
 Easy Concept of eID Minimum Information on eID
availabel to all individuals, free at use and low price
can be used in any system, public or private where
electronic identification is needed
 Usability of middleware and carddriver on all operating systems is ensured by
state IT department (in Windows 7 and 8 the eID
driver is already installed – „plug and play“)
 Full controll by citizen over all access on own card at any time (regulated
by law)

15. Recently asked questions
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 eID for foreigners?
 eID competition?
 Security Considerations?
 Big system falldowns?
 Why only Estonia?

16. Thank you for your interest!
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www.id.ee
www.e-estonia.com