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Commission: Estonia mobile-ID and e-voting safety not in danger

BC, Tallinn, 23.02.2015.Print version
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus confirmed that the cyber attacks against the world's largest SIM card manufacturer Gemalto do not endanger Estonian mobile-ID security; e-voting commission confirmed that e-voting, connected to using mobile-ID, is also still secure, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

"We have analyzed the information available to us about the attack and on this basis it can be confirmed that the security of mobile-ID is not affected by it, mobile-ID is still safe, and users do not need to make adjustments to their normal behaviour in any way," said the head of AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus Kalev Pihl.

 

Estonian National Electoral Commission's e-voting commission's deputy chairwoman Epp Maaten said that among Estonian mobile operators, only EMT uses SIM cards issued by Gemalto, but only as pre-paid call cards and Gemalto is not the only vendor of the cards.

 

Asked whether the attack against Gemalto can somehow be linked to the Estonian ID card, Maaten said that no. "This attack has no connection to the Estonian ID card, so it does not affect the use of the ID card."

 

Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and Gemalto Oy signed an agreement in May 2013 on buying the blanks and services necessary to issue Estonian passports for the period 2014-2018. Police and Border Guard Board spokesman Martin Luige said that while the cooperation partner produces chips for passports, the personification is done in Estonia and encrypting keys are well protected.

 

The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat wrote at the weekend that Gemalto, which became victim of hackers working for US and British special services, has been a part of building up the Estonian e-voting and mobile-ID system.






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