Privacy

Digital identity

Terms

5 terms

  • Decentralized identity

    Decentralized identity is a digital identity model in which people hold their own credentials and prove claims without a central identity provider.

  • eIDAS 2.0

    eIDAS 2.0 is the revised EU regulation on electronic identification and trust services that introduces the European Digital Identity Wallet for citizens.

  • EUDI Wallet

    The EUDI Wallet is the European Digital Identity Wallet, an app for storing and selectively sharing official identity data and credentials under eIDAS 2.0.

  • Selective disclosure

    Selective disclosure lets a credential holder reveal only chosen attributes of a signed digital identity credential while the verifier can still trust them.

  • Verifiable credential

    A verifiable credential is a digitally signed set of claims about a subject that a holder stores and presents, and any verifier can check cryptographically.