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**Accreditation Process**
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Process performed by the National Accreditation Body to accredit CABs, resulting in an accreditation certificate.
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Identical to ARF 1.10.
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**Attributes**
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**User Attribute**
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**Certification Process**
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Process by Conformity Assessment Bodies to certify the Wallet Solution, including periodic technical assessments.
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**Conformity Assessment Body (CAB)**
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Accredited body competent to assess/certify Wallet Solutions or trust service providers.
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**Credential Status Assertion**
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**Status Assertion**
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Signed document proving a Digital Credential's current validity status.
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**Critical Assets**
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Assets (e.g., cryptographic keys) whose loss would seriously impact the Wallet Unit.
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**Cryptographic Hardware Key Tag**
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Unique identifier for Cryptographic Hardware Keys, used to access the private key in hardware.
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**Cryptographic Hardware Keys**
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Key pair generated by the Wallet Instance, valid for its lifetime.
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**Device Integrity Service**
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Service by device manufacturers to verify app integrity and secure key storage.
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**Digital Credential**
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**Credential**
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**Federation Authority**
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Public governance entity issuing guidelines, rules, and managing trust lists and participant status.
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**Holder**
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Person or entity that receives, manages, and presents Digital Credentials via the Wallet Instance.
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**Holder Key Binding**
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Ability of the Holder to prove possession of the private key attested by a Trusted Third Party.
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**Identity and Access Management (IAM)**
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Framework for managing digital identities and access to information.
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**IT-Wallet System**
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Set of Technical Solutions implementing the Italian Digital Wallet System.
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**Key Attestation**
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Attestation from device OEM about secure key storage in hardware-backed keystore.
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**Level of Assurance**
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Degree of confidence in identity vetting and credential presentation.
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**Metadata**
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Digital artifact with information about an Organizational Entity (endpoints, public keys, etc.).
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**National Accreditation Bodies (NAB)**
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Body performing accreditation under authority from a Member State.
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**National Identity Provider**
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Preexisting identity systems (e.g. CIE) notified to eIDAS.
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**Notification Process**
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Process for transferring information to the EC and inclusion in the Trusted List.
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**Organizational Entity**
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Legal person (organization or public entity) recognized to operate a role in the IT-Wallet ecosystem.
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**Personal Identification Data**
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A set of data which allow to establish the identity of a natural or legal person, or of a natural person representing another natural or legal person, to be established.
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**Policy Language**
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Formal language for defining security, privacy, and identity management policies.
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**Primary Actors**
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Entities implementing Technical Solutions for the IT-Wallet System.
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Digitally verifiable attestation in electronic form, substantiating possession of attributes.
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**Public Electronic Attestation of Attributes (Pub-EAA)**
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**Electronic Attestation of Attributes issued by or on behalf of a public sector body (Pub-EAA)**
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**Public Electronic Attestation of Attributes**
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Electronic Attestation of Attributes that contains Attributes deriving from a public Authentic Source.
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**Electronic Attestation of Public Interest**
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**Credential of Public Interest**
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Electronic Attestation of Attributes that contains Attributes intended to certify the release, by the State or other public administrations, of authorizations, certifications, qualifications, identity and recognition documents, receipts of revenue, or to assume a fiduciary value and protection of public faith afterwards their issuance or the entries made on them and, in general, when they are considered security documents pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 10-bis, Law 13 July 1966, no. 559.
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**Person Identification Data (PID)**
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Electronic Attestation that allows the subject to whom the Personal Identification Data refers to be authenticated.
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**Relying Party Solution**
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Product (software/hardware/cloud) enabling Credential presentations in various contexts.
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**Relying Party Backend**
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Remote infrastructure with server-side components managed by a Relying Party Solution provider.
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**Relying Party Instance**
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**Verifier App**
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**Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)**
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Approach giving individuals control over their digital identity information.
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**Supervision Process**
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Process by a Supervisory Body to review and ensure proper functioning of the Wallet Provider and others.
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**Technical Solutions**
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Hardware/software systems and services implemented by Wallet Solution Providers, PID Provider, etc.
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**Technical Specifications**
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Specifications providing technical architecture, implementation framework, and design requirements.
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**Trust**
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Confidence in the security, reliability, and integrity of entities and their actions.
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**Trust Attestation**
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Electronic attestation of compliance with the regulatory framework, cryptographically verifiable.
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**Trust Evaluation**
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Process of verifying trustworthiness of registered Organizational Entities.
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**Trust Framework**
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Legally enforceable set of rules and agreements for a multi-party system.
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**Trust Layer**
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Architectural component enabling participants to establish trust.
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**Trust Model**
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Collection of rules ensuring legitimacy of components/entities in the IT-Wallet ecosystem.
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**Trust Relationship**
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Reliable relationship between Organizational Entities after Trust Evaluation.
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**Access Certificate**
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Certificate authenticating and validating the (Wallet-) Relying Party.
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**Certificate Signing Request (CSR)**
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Request sent to a CA containing the public key and identifying information for a digital certificate.
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**Trusted List**
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Repository of information about authoritative entities and their status.
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**Verifier**
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**Credential Verifier**
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A person or entity using a Relying Party Instance.
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**Wallet Instance**
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Application installed on a User's device, part of the Wallet Unit, providing user interfaces.
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**Intermediate Entity**
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**Intermediary**
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Intermediate Entity as defined in `OID-FED`_ Section 1.2, for example in IT-Wallet it could be a Relying Party intermediary that offers and manages, on behalf of Relying Party, the Technical Solutions for the remote or proximity verification of Electronic Attestations.
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For any term not present in ARF 1.10, the IT-Wallet definition is provided as authoritative for the Italian context.
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* - **QEAA**
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- Qualified Electronic Attestation of Attributes
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- Public Electronic Attestation of Attributes
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- Electronic Attestation of Attributes issued by or on behalf of a public sector body
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