Digital identities are the linchpin of all modern digital services. Particularly in applications with high protection requirements, the question of "Who operates the application?" is a key issue that is often the subject of time-consuming and costly discussions.
There are many private-sector solutions for identification, but many citizens already carry one solution in their wallets: the (electronic) ID card. However, its use is still very limited due to the technical challenges involved in connection and verification.
L21s has helped a healthcare provider to integrate the electronic ID card verification in their product. During the project, a number of technical solutions were evaluated. L21s has decided to take these learnings and release them in an open source manner, by building a plugin for the best-known open source identity provider Keycloak for eletronic ID card identification.
After the session, attendees will understand:
- Reasons for the relatively low level of adoption of electronic id cards for private sector digital processes
- Technical limitations and challenges of the id card verification process
- How to leverage open source software to build their own identification processes based on the electronic ID card
