Conformity assessment for eIDAS | IDnow GmbH | identity Management

As part of identity Management various identification methods are offered to natural persons. Partly the methods offer the possibility to legally sign contracts by hand or by an qualified electronic signature after successful completion of the identification process:

• identity Shop: For the method identity Shop, the user is identified by an employee of a shop commissioned and authorized by IDnow. Therefore, a valid identification document is used. The process is documented by the employee digitally. The collected identification data as well as the documentation regarding the identification procedure are transmitted encrypted to IDnow for verification.
• identity Video: For the method identity Video the user is identified by employees of a video call centre, which is cooperating with IDnow. Therefore, an uninterrupted video stream with the user has to be established, showing the user and its valid identification document. The user has to respond to questions from the identifier and has to act in a specific manner defined by the identifier in order to prove the authenticity of the identification process and the identification document. The process is documented by screenshots and the video stream of the process.
• identity autoID: In the identity autoID process, the user is identified in an AI-based video identification process. To start the procedure, the user is asked to scan a QR code with the identity autoID app. Then, the user is asked to hold the front and back of their valid and accepted identity document into the camera of their smartphone and move the document to make holograms visible. In addition, the person to be identified must take a selfie video (for liveliness detection and to match the person with the photo of the identity document). All security checks (e.g. verification of the authenticity of the ID document, evaluation of the data for liveliness detection) are performed by an AI-supported software of IDnow GmbH. Communication with the IDnow GmbH software takes place via an SDK that is integrated into the identity autoID app.
• identity PoS: The method identity PoS is offered to users who want to identify themselves at the Point of Sale of an cooperation partner of IDnow. After successful identification it is  offered to the user to legally sign a contract with the cooperation partner with a qualified electronic signature. Therefore, IDnow cooperates with a Trust Service Provider (TSP). The user has to provide its identification data to a computer system placed at the Point of Sale, which is sent to the TSP. The TSP transmits the data to IDnow. Afterwards, an employee at the PoS identifies the user by using a valid identification document. The collected identification data is transmitted to IDnow as well. If both transmitted data sets are matching, IDnow informs the TSP that the identification process was successful. Afterwards the user can use the trust service provided by the TSP in order to legally sign a contract with a qualified electronic signature.
• identity eID: For the method identity eID, the user can identify himself by using his German governmental identity card (nPA) at a cooperation partner of IDnow. Therefore, the user provides his identity data and gets a code for starting the identification process. Afterwards the user is requested to start the process for reading out the data for the identity card. The user has to confirm by providing his eID-PIN that the service provider is allowed to read out the data. Afterwards the data is read out by the service provider, who transmits the collected data to IDnow. IDnow compares the identification data provided initially by the user with those read out from his identity card. If the data sets are matching, the identification was successful.

SRC confirms, that the identity management service identity Management is operated by IDnow GmbH compliant to the requirements of Regulation (EU) No. 910 / 2014.