Media room

The core function of AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus (SK) is to ensure the reliability and integrity of the electronic infrastructure behind the Estonian ID Card project. We function as a CA, provide certificates to the card and also the services necessary for utilizing the certificates and giving legally binding digital signatures. We also function as a competence center for ID Card and spread the knowledge necessary for creating electronic applications to the card. You can already give legally binding digital signatures in Estonia using applications based on SK-s DigiDoc architecture.

We are contributing the results of our work on digital signatures to the international digital signature community as an open user group, open source project OpenXAdES.org available at www.openxades.org. Visit the site to learn more.

To continue, we suggest downloading:

• general summary about SK (400KB, pdf)
• the ID video (approx. 9 minutes; 90MB, mpeg) to get an overview of the Estonian ID card and its applications.

In addition we suggest:

• www.openxades.org - universal digital signatures - concept, document/software downloads
• www.id.ee - all-around information about the ID card and its usage for end users
• DigiDoc portal (ID card required)
• Download the whitepaper about the Estonian ID card project