Start Here – Digital identity and trust, explained

Digital identity and electronic trust services are moving fast, and the jargon often moves faster than the law, standards, and real systems. This page gives you a clear starting path through TrustIDguide if you are:

• A legal, policy, or compliance professional who needs to speak confidently about digital identity and eiDAS 2.0.
• A technical or architecture lead who needs to understand how legal trust requirements map to wallets, credentials, signatures, and protocols.

From here, you can follow a short reading path that connects:

1. The big picture of digital identity and trust.
2. The core concepts that appear again and again.
3. The glossary and deeper reference material.

1. What TrustIDguide is for

TrustIDguide exists to answer a simple question:

How does legal trust actually work when identity, signatures, credentials, and verification move from paper to digital systems?

We focus on:

• Digital identity frameworks and schemes – including the European Digital Identity framework and EUDI Wallets.
• Electronic trust services – such as electronic signatures, seals, time-stamps, and qualified trust service providers (QTSPs).
• eIDAS 2.0 and related standards – how regulations, standards, and technical choices fit together in real implementations.

The site is designed so that:

• Legal / policy readers can see how technical choices affect liability, evidence, and supervision.
• Technical / architecture readers can see how laws, standards, and governance constraints shape system design.