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The E-identification Board
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The Swedish Infrastructure for e-identity and what’s
going on?
Eva Ekenberg
2011-12-07
• 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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E-identification in Sweden today
The situation today in SwedenThe situation today in Sweden
Sellers of
validation
control for
BankID (two
banks)
Skandia
nkenSwed-
bankSHB
SEB
Danske
Bank
The concept BankID is used by nine banks
Telia
Nordea
Municipal X
Tax
Authoritypublic
agency
Company X
Pharmacy
Banks
Public sector
Private sector
e-services
Intermediaries
Telia in the
role as seller
of validation
control
Nordea in the
role as seller of validation
control
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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
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)
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)
What’s new for Swedish e-identification?
Private sector
Issuers of eIDIssuers of eID
Architecture and business structure
Public sector
Users
Business partners
eService
providers
The Board as contracting
authority
Common infrastructureFunctions for
-approval
-supervision
-test
Regulations
Including identity
assurance
framework
Provider of identity
token
Provider of identity
token
Agreement
Agreement to
adopt to the
common
infrastructure
Agreement
EmployersEmployers
Agreement eID
Agreement to
mediate identity
token
The Board as
responsible for
the common
infrastructure
Contact information
• Eva Ekenberg [email protected]
• www.elegnamnden.se
• https://docs.eid2.se/ (test Environment eID2.0)
