EAA guide
Plain answers on electronic attestations of attributes, eIDAS 2.0 and the EU digital identity wallet. Each page starts with the short answer and names its sources.
- What is an EAA?
- An EAA is a digitally signed proof of a fact about a person, such as a membership or a qualification, kept in an EU digital identity wallet. Definition, the three kinds and how it works.
- EAA vs QEAA
- EAA, QEAA, Pub-EAA and PID compared: who issues them, what legal effect they have under eIDAS 2.0, what a QEAA must contain and when you need which.
- Digital membership card
- How a club issues digital membership cards to the EU digital identity wallet as EAA: what members get, what the club sends, data protection, and how it compares to plastic cards and club apps.
- Glossary A to Z
- The terms around electronic attestations of attributes, explained in one or two sentences each: EAA, QEAA, PID, QTSP, EUDI wallet, SD-JWT VC, mdoc, OpenID4VCI and more.