According to organisers of the project, the Cross-Border Authentication Platform for Electronic Services Pilot aims to achieve more cooperation between EU member states, via mutual recognition of their respective national eID scheme. Through technical interoperability with electronic services, the ease-of-use and take up of these services will be improved across national borders.
In November 2010 it was announced that Lithuania joined the STORK project and interconnection activity has been already completed with Portugal, France, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy and Slovenia, using C-PEPS (Pan-European Proxy Service) and NQC (Non-Qualified Certificate) authentication technology and qualified e.signature certificates for eID verification. The next phase of the pilot will achieve integration with Estonia and Sweden.
The organisers of the project report that for Lithuania the Cross Border Authentication Platform for Electronic Services pilot is crucially important as it enables existing online public services to be accessed securely by its citizens working or residing in other member states.
“As a result of the pilot, citizens will be able to easily access valuable online services provided by Member States using their nationally issued eID credentials,” says Vice Gintaras Steponas Vysniauskas, Minister in Lithuania’s Ministry of the Interior.
Lithuania introduced personal eID cards on 1 January 2009 and so far more than 530,000 have been issued to citizens. The cards’ contact chip enables card holders to use the card online because it contains both a certificate for online identification and a qualified certificate for eSignature.
“When looking to modernise local, regional and national eGovernment services, some international services can also be considered extremely important for citizens, business and institutions,” says Vysniauskas. “For this reason, Lithuania is taking an active participating role in this pilot, enhancing our national electronic services and connecting them to a proven interoperability layer for the benefit of our citizens and others in the Union.”
STORK WP7 ‘Communication and Sustainability’ leader and executive director of Gov2u, Vasilis Koulolias, says: “With the hard work of all the partners involved in the Cross-Border Authentication Platform for Electronic Services Pilot much progress has been made. We are moving ever closer to creating a reliable and secure technology infrastructure, that will ultimately enable all EU member states to enjoy the freedom of sharing electronics services, irrespective of national borders.”
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Quelle/Source: Security Document World, 23.05.2011
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