There is a European certification for digital identity wallets. It has been law since No …

There is a European certification for digital identity wallets. It has been law since November 2024.

Here is what happens when you try to get one.

The regulation puts certification in the hands of the member states: each runs its own national scheme. A scheme owner has to publish that scheme. An accredited body then audits you against it — and the national accreditation body needs the scheme's parameters before it can accredit anybody at all.

So I walked down the chain. Scheme: not published. Accreditation: blocked, waiting on the scheme. Certification body: none accredited yet. Application form: does not exist.

Not a rejection. Not a queue. Not a "come back in March". There is simply nothing there.

And to be clear, because somebody will ask: I am not claiming I would pass. The requirements are serious — assurance level high, resistance to attackers with high attack potential, a full third-party audit. Maybe I'd fail it. That isn't the point.

The point is that there is no exam to sit.

Six weeks before the deadline that made all of this mandatory, the number of certified wallets in the European Union is zero.

Where do I sign up?