diff --git a/Finnish-FINeID.md b/Finnish-FINeID.md index 72877e5..96e8904 100644 --- a/Finnish-FINeID.md +++ b/Finnish-FINeID.md @@ -1,25 +1,20 @@ # Finnish FINeID -The FINeID cards are available to the private citizens and organizations. -All the new personal identity cards are FINeID cards and they are applied from the police. -(The eid certificates are also available to some banking cards and mobile SIM cards) +The FINeID cards are available to private citizens and organizations. All the new personal identity cards are eID cards and they are applied from the police. -The eid certificates are issued by the Population Register Centre (VRK). -Naturally, one cannot alter the eid certificates and keys on the cards. +The FINeID certificates are issued by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV). Naturally, one cannot alter the FINeID certificates and keys on the cards. -There are two generations of the Finnish eid cards. -OpenSC should work fine with the eid application following the version 1.x specification that is using a PKCS#15 file structure. -The version 2 of the eid specification address the ISO/IEC 7816-15 file structure and somewhat different command parameters to the version 1 specification. +There are [several generations](https://digisaatio.fi/wiki/Henkil%C3%B6kortti#Versiot) of FINeID cards. OpenSC should work fine with the eID application following the version 1.x specification that is using a PKCS#15 file structure. The version 2 of the FIN specification address the ISO/IEC 7816-15 file structure and somewhat different command parameters to the version 1 specification. The current version of the cards is not supported by OpenSC. -The support for the FINeID is implemented in [`card-setcos.c`](https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/src/libopensc/card-setcos.c) driver. -Refer there for the ATRs of supported cards. +The support for the FINeID is implemented in [`card-setcos.c`](https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/src/libopensc/card-setcos.c) driver. Refer there for the ATRs of supported cards. -The eid application has two PIN codes, one for the identification/encryption -and the other for the signing operations. +The eID card has [two PIN codes](https://dvv.fi/en/citizen-certificate-managing-pin-codes), the basic PIN (PIN1) and the signature PIN (PIN2). The FINeID cards allow storing extra data (say, home-made PKI keypairs). ## References -* [HST wiki](http://linux.fi/wiki/HST) -* [About cards and certificates on The Finnish Digital Agency](https://dvv.fi/tietoa-varmenteista) +* [About cards and certificates at DVV](https://dvv.fi/en/about-certificates) (in English) +* [FINEID specifications at DVV](https://dvv.fi/en/fineid-specifications) (in English) +* [HST at linux.fi wiki](http://linux.fi/wiki/HST) (in Finnish) +* [Henkilökortti at digisaatio.fi wiki](https://digisaatio.fi/wiki/Henkil%C3%B6kortti) (in Finnish)