Supported Authentication Methods
There are many approaches, which can be used to authenticate a user. For instance, one eID service can support username/password as well as smartcard based authentication. In the following, the existing authentication methods are summarized. Details regarding the exact authentication scheme with a reference to the official documentation are then described below. If the details are not explicitly provided, we refer to[1], which is based on the results of the STORK 2.0 project[2].
| Country | Username / password | Soft-certificate | Smartcard | Mobile eID | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Belgium | Yes | ||||
| Bulgaria | Yes | Yes | Mobile support via NFC or SMS-based challenge response protocol | ||
| Croatia | |||||
| Cyprus | |||||
| Czech Republic | |||||
| Denmark | Yes | Yes | |||
| Estonia | Yes | Yes | |||
| Finland | Yes | ||||
| France | Yes | Yes | Two-factor authentication (not specified) | ||
| Georgia | Yes | No | Yes | OTPs | |
| Germany | Yes | Smartcard + Extended Access Control 2, Restricted Identification | |||
| Greece | |||||
| Hungary | |||||
| Iceland | Yes | ||||
| Ireland | |||||
| Italy | Yes | ||||
| Latvia | |||||
| Lithuania | Yes | ||||
| Luxembourg | Yes | Yes | |||
| Malta | |||||
| Netherlands | |||||
| Norway | Yes | Yes | |||
| Poland | |||||
| Portugal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | OTP, EAC |
| Romania | |||||
| Slovakia | |||||
| Slovenia | Yes | Yes | |||
| Spain | Yes | Yes | |||
| Sweden | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Turkey | |||||
| United Kingdom | |||||
| eIDAS |
Table 1: Supported user authentication methods
1. ^ Leitold, H. (2016). Presentation at COINS Summerschool. STORK and STORK 2.0.
2. ^ STORK 2.0. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.eid-stork2.eu/
