On 22.05.2007, at 17:06, Douglas E. Engert wrote: > Can these cards be used to authenticate to non-government > sites? For example comercial or research sites in other > countries? Usage across EU borders (for EU eID cards) is a future vision but not a practical solution yet. I believe https://open.id.ee/about/english shall be one of the first services to actually support several EU eID cards (Estonian, Belgian, Spanish and Finnish being the first target) for *practical* solutions. It all depends on the site policy - what to accept, how and what for.
> Which countries have them? AFAIK: Estonia, Belgium, Finland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Sweden. Be sure to check with http://www.comune.grosseto.it/interopeid/ > What percent of the population have these cards? In Estonia - IIRC around 80% of the whole population (1.000.000+ cards) At the same time - the real electronic usage is below 10% currently (but growing strongly with estimates being at least 400000 active users for 2009) > The US does not have such a card. The PIV is going to > be for government employees and contractors. Pity. -- Martin Paljak _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
