Digital Identity & Signatures

2026

  1. Concept · Digital Identity · Mobile Security

    Self-Ident Proof of Concept

    Passport photo from the chip, guided portrait capture and face comparison – entirely on the smartphone.

  2. Concept · Transparency · Digital Identity

    Verifiable Monitoring for Transparency Logs

    Verifiable Indices give cryptographically complete answers to queries like “all certificates for this domain” in transparency logs.

2025

  1. Overview · Web & Cloud · Digital Identity

    Web APIs for Identity Management

    New browser interfaces such as DC API, FedCM and WebAuthn move identity management into the browser; the study evaluates their status.

  2. Software · Web & Cloud · Digital Identity

    PDF-Over

    Sign PDF documents with a qualified electronic signature using ID Austria – on your own computer, free of charge and open source.

  3. Concept · Transparency · Digital Identity

    Wallet Binary Transparency

    A public log of hashes makes tampered updates of digital identity wallets detectable and so strengthens trust in the code.

  4. Concept · Digital Identity · E-Government

    eIDAS Embedded Disclosure Policies

    Under eIDAS 2, issuers can define which services may access a credential; the study analyses the regulation and the ARF on this.

2024

  1. Analysis · Digital Identity · Web & Cloud

    Federated Credential Management (FedCM API)

    Browsers are blocking tracking via third-party cookies and redirects – can the FedCM API support e-government SSO such as ID Austria?

  2. Overview · Privacy & Crypto · Digital Identity

    Privacy-preserving Identifiers

    Unique identifiers let services link users across sites – methods based on OPRF, MPC and ZKP against linkability and observability.

2023

  1. Concept · Digital Identity · Privacy & Crypto

    Identity Recovery in Case of Device Loss

    How can identities and keys stored in a TEE be securely backed up and restored when the device is lost?

2021

  1. Software · Digital Identity · Web & Cloud

    MOA-SP/SS

    Create and verify signatures centrally on the server – for official signatures and signature verification in applications.

2020

  1. Software · Digital Identity · Web & Cloud

    PDF-AS

    Official and qualified signatures for PDF documents – automated, standards-compliant and easy to integrate.

2012

  1. Software · Digital Identity · Web & Cloud

    Signature Verification Tool

    Verifies electronic signatures automatically in many document formats – the technology behind RTR's signature verification.

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