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New Thales ID Cards in Estonia 2025

Mart Sõmermaa edited this page Nov 6, 2025 · 8 revisions

Starting in November 2025, Thales will replace IDEMIA as the producer of Estonia’s ID-cards. The trust services for the new Thales ID-cards will be provided by Zetes Estonia. Thales test cards are available to e-service providers for testing ID-card authentication and digital signing solutions. More information about the Thales ID-cards is available here.

To support Thales test ID-cards in an application that uses ID-card authentication with Web eID, you must add the Zetes Estonia intermediate CA certificate to the list of trusted intermediate certificate authorities.

In the Web eID PHP example application, CA certificates are loaded from *.der.crt files located in the certificates subdirectory of the example. If your application loads certificates differently, make sure to include the certificate accordingly.

All trusted certificates, including the new one, must be provided as arguments to AuthTokenValidatorBuilder().withTrustedCertificateAuthorities().

Production certificate

The production intermediate certificate ESTEID2025.crt is available here: https://crt.eidpki.ee/ESTEID2025.crt.

Test certificate

The test intermediate certificate TestESTEID2025.crt is available here: http://crt-test.eidpki.ee/testESTEID2025.crt.

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