STORK is a co funded European Commission Large Scale Pilot programme under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. The policy framework most relevant to STORK is the “i2010 – A European Society for growth and employment” initiative, which has classified eID interoperability as a key factor for economic growth and employment in the EU. STORK is possibly the largest eID project in Europe in...

The Austrian eID system constitutes a main pillar within the Austrian eGovernment strategy. The eID system ensures unique identification and secure authentication for citizens protecting access to applications where sensitive and personal data is involved. In particular, the Austrian eID system supports three main use cases: Identification and authentication of Austrian citizens, electronic rep...

The distinction between Sézary syndrome (SS) and benign erythrodermic inflammatory diseases (EID) is difficult to make both clinically and on skin biopsies, since histomorphology can provide nonspecific results. New markers of circulating malignant Sézary cells have been recently described, especially CD158k/KIR3DL2 and T-plastin, but it has not been yet determined whether they could help in th...

Although eID technology has undergone several development cycles and eID have been issued to citizens of various European countries, it is still not as broadly used as originally expected. One reason is the absence of compelling use cases besides eGovernment. Current Research focuses mainly on the needs of the user and technical aspects. The economic perspective is often disregarded. This is es...

Recently, the interest in electronic voting has increased as more and more states have started to implement such systems. At the same time, classical national ID cards are often being replaced by national electronic ID cards which enable citizens to securely identify and authenticate themselves over the Internet. Despite their popularity, the possibility of using eID cards for e-voting has not ...

Due to the rapid increase of digitization within our society, digital identities gain more and more importance. Provided by the German eID solution, every citizen has the ability to identify himself against various governmental and private organizations with the help of his personal electronic ID card and a corresponding card reader. While there are several solutions available for desktop use o...