FutureTrust – Future Trust Services for Trustworthy Global Transactions
Detlef Hühnlein, Tilman Frosch, Jörg Schwenk, Carl-Markus Piswanger, Marc Sel, Tina Hühnlein, Tobias Wich, Daniel Nemmert, René Lottes, Stefan Baszanowski, Volker Zeuner, Michael Rauh, Juraj Somorovsky, Vladislav Mladenov, Cristina Condovici, Herbert Leitold, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Niko Tsakalakis, Jan Eichholz, Frank-Michael Kamm · River Publishers eBooks · 2022
Against the background of the regulation 2014/910/EU [ 1 ] on electronic identification (eID) and trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS), the FutureTrust project 1 , which is funded within the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) under Grant Agreement No. 700542, aims at supporting the practical implementation of the regulation in Europe and beyond. For this purpose, the FutureTrust project will address the need for globally interoperable solutions through basic research with respect to the foundations of trust and trustworthiness, actively support the standardisation process in relevant areas, and provide Open Source software components and trustworthy services which will ease the use of eID and electronic signature technology in real world applications. The FutureTrust project will extend the existing European Trust Service Status List (TSL) infrastructure towards a “Global Trust List”, develop a comprehensive Open Source Validation Service as well as a scalable Preservation Service for electronic signatures and seals. Furthermore, it will provide components for the eID-based application for qualified certificates across borders, and for the trustworthy creation of remote signatures and seals in a mobile environment. The present contribution provides an overview of the FutureTrust project and invites further stakeholders to actively participate in contributing to the development of future trust services for trustworthy global transactions.