Today Swisscom announced it’s working with Orell Füssli to progress the use of legally binding digital certificates that use blockchain. While Orell Füssli is known as a Swiss book publisher, it also prints banknotes and its subsidiary Procivis is a major provider of digital identity solutions for government services. For example, its eID+ solution is used by Zug.
Covid certificates that sometimes use blockchain have made the concept of blockchain and self-sovereign identity (SSI) more mainstream. With SSI, the user maintains control of identity information and chooses with whom to share it.
The smartphone solutions developed jointly by the two companies will target citizens, companies and public authorities, and they plan to launch the first application within 12 months. Examples of digital certificates mentioned include age verification, verification of documents, and combining identity with digital signatures. These digital certificates are forgery-proof.
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