Skip to content

Commit 06f0f57

Browse files
tjhietalafrankmorgner
authored andcommitted
Update Finnish-FINeID.md
Remove outdated information, add up-to-date information, improve spelling and grammar.
1 parent 7e6f82c commit 06f0f57

File tree

1 file changed

+9
-14
lines changed

1 file changed

+9
-14
lines changed

Finnish-FINeID.md

+9-14
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -1,25 +1,20 @@
11
# Finnish FINeID
22

3-
The FINeID cards are available to the private citizens and organizations.
4-
All the new personal identity cards are FINeID cards and they are applied from the police.
5-
(The eid certificates are also available to some banking cards and mobile SIM cards)
3+
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.
64

7-
The eid certificates are issued by the Population Register Centre (VRK).
8-
Naturally, one cannot alter the eid certificates and keys on the cards.
5+
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.
96

10-
There are two generations of the Finnish eid cards.
11-
OpenSC should work fine with the eid application following the version 1.x specification that is using a PKCS#15 file structure.
12-
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.
7+
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.
138

14-
The support for the FINeID is implemented in [`card-setcos.c`](https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/src/libopensc/card-setcos.c) driver.
15-
Refer there for the ATRs of supported cards.
9+
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.
1610

17-
The eid application has two PIN codes, one for the identification/encryption
18-
and the other for the signing operations.
11+
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).
1912

2013
The FINeID cards allow storing extra data (say, home-made PKI keypairs).
2114

2215
## References
2316

24-
* [HST wiki](http://linux.fi/wiki/HST)
25-
* [About cards and certificates on The Finnish Digital Agency](https://dvv.fi/tietoa-varmenteista)
17+
* [About cards and certificates at DVV](https://dvv.fi/en/about-certificates) (in English)
18+
* [FINEID specifications at DVV](https://dvv.fi/en/fineid-specifications) (in English)
19+
* [HST at linux.fi wiki](http://linux.fi/wiki/HST) (in Finnish)
20+
* [Henkilökortti at digisaatio.fi wiki](https://digisaatio.fi/wiki/Henkil%C3%B6kortti) (in Finnish)

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)