CEF eID Presented at the FIDO Alliance

On 9 May 2016, the European Commission Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT) presented CEF eID at the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance in Berlin, Germany.

CEF eID helps public administrations and private online service providers to easily extend the use of their online services to citizens from other EU Member States. The CEF eID solution can assist compliance with eIDAS Regulation, which ensures legal interoperability by providing a clear regulatory framework.

The CEF eID service offering provides the eIDAS-Node software, conformance testing, technical support and training and an eIDAS compliant set of technical specifications (which Member States can use if they are providing their own implementation). CEF eID undertakes the task of general coordination of the eID activities in the Member States, in order to ensure maximal interoperability of the eID core service platform across borders and advise in order to support the eIDAS compliance in the Member States, from a legal to technical point of view.

You can find all the information you need to start (re)using CEF eID on the CEF Digital 2018 portal.

The FIDO Alliance is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization nominally formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices as well as the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords