[Lichtenfels, Germany, 2024/06/04] To support the sovereign, interoperable and trustworthy implementation of the recently enacted “European Digital Identity Framework”, the non-profit go.eIDAS Association joined forces with selected partners including C&S Computer und Software GmbH, Eclipse Foundation, eco Association, ecsec GmbH, moveID project, msg systems ag, OSB Alliance, Sovereign Cloud Stack project and the TEAM-X project in order to successfully launch the eIDAS-Testbed (https://test.eID.AS), which aims at fostering sovereignty, interoperability and trust for digital identities in Europe and beyond.

[Michelau, 1st March 2022] The TEAM-X project (Trusted Ecosystem of Applied Medical Data eXchange) was launched at the beginning of 2022. Eleven partners, including ecsec GmbH, aim to strengthen the digital competence and innovative power of the health and care sector in the project. The ability and self-determination of the population in dealing with their health and care data are also to be strengthened. On 24 February 2022, TEAM-X was officially launched with a virtual handover of the funding notification by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

[Michelau/Dortmund/Ismaning, 23rd February 2022] A consortium of ecsec, Spherity and msg has won the Gaia-X Notarization API implementation financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Together with msg and ecsec, Spherity is implementing a decentralized identity technology solution that enables enterprises to manage their own decentralized identity and attest given master data as W3C compliant digital Verifiable Credentials. The solution will be open sourced after the implementation phase and will allow all Gaia-X participants to use it as reference implementation to join Gaia-X and Catena-X or other ecosystems using the same base technology.

[Michelau, 5th October 2021] After the recent publication of an “eID-Login” App for Nextcloud and an "eID-Login" Plugin for WordPress, ecsec GmbH was once again working on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in order to develop an "eID-Login" extension for TYPO3, which has now been published under an Open Source license. In connection with the SkIDentity service, the German eID card can now be used free of charge in all TYPO3-based web applications for strong authentication at the frontend.

[Michelau, 24th August 2021] After the recent publication of an “eID-Login” App for Nextcloud, ecsec GmbH was once again working on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in order to develop an „eID-Login“ Plugin for the freely available and market-leading WordPress Content Management System (CMS), which has now been published under an Open Source license. In connection with the SkIDentity service, the German eID card can now be used free of charge in all WordPress-based websites for strong authentication.