The E-identification Board

1. The Swedish Infrastructure
for e-identity and what’s
going on?
Eva Ekenberg
2011-12-07

2. E-identification in Sweden today
• More than 4 million people in Sweden currently
have e-identification
• E-identifications were used more than 250
million times in various public e-services during
the last year
• E-identification for citizens are issued by private
sector - mainly through banks and a large
telecommunication provider
• The public sector purchases validation control of
the e-identification on a commercial basis
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3. The situation today in Sweden
e-services
Private sector
Company X Public sector
Pharmacy Municipal X
Banks Tax
Telia in the Authority
role as seller public
of validation agency
control
Telia
Nordea in the
role as seller
Nordea of validation
Intermediaries
control
Skandia
Sellers of
nken
Swed- validation
bankSHB control for
BankID (two
SEB banks)
Danske The concept BankID
is used by nine banks
Bank
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4. What is the eIdentification Board?
• Public authority
– six members in the board
• The board has the task to ”support and
coordinate electronic identification and
signature in public e-services

5. What’s new for Swedish e-identification?
1. Coordination and gradual development of
infrastructure (a task for the Swedish E-
identification board)
2. New way to procure electronic identification
for public sector e-services to meet new
regulatory requirements (mandatory)

6. What’s new for Swedish e-identification?
3. Introduction of identity tokens to
• simplify the integration of e-service providers
• make it possible to vary the information about the holder
of the e-ID, depending on the e-service
• make it possible to use e-ID solutions that are not PKI-
based
4. Introduction of a central electronic signing service as a
consequence of introducing identity tokens (mandatory)
5. Provide so-called metadata about issuers and services to
facilitate secure communication between actors
(contributing to increased efficiency)

7. Architecture and business structure
Public sector Private sector
Provider of identity
Provider of identity
token
token Agreement
Agreement to eService
mediate identity providers
Agreement
token
Users
The Board as Business
contracting partners
authority
Employers
Employers
Agreement eID
Agreement to
Issuers of eID
Issuers of eID adopt to the
common
infrastructure
Regulations Common infrastructure
Functions for The Board as
Including identity -approval responsible for
assurance -supervision the common
framework infrastructure
-test

8. Contact information
• Eva Ekenberg
eva.ekenberg@elegnamnden.se
• www.elegnamnden.se
• https://docs.eid2.se/ (test Environment
eID2.0)