# ETSI TC ESI; Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures; Use of EU Digital Identity Wallets and electronic signatures for identification with Smart Contracts

Juan-Carlos Cruellas Ibarz, Luigi Liquori, Scott Cadzow, Michal Tabor, Nick Pope, Xun Xiao, Paolo Cornaglia, Davide Porro, Tooba Faisal, Steffen Schwalm, et al.

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Juan-Carlos Cruellas Ibarz, Luigi Liquori, Scott Cadzow, Michal Tabor, Nick Pope, et al. ETSI TC ESI; Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures; Use of EU Digital Identity Wallets and electronic signatures for identification with Smart Contracts. ETSI, 2025, pp.24. hal-05409981

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ETSI TS ESI; Electronic Signatures and Trust
Infrastructures (ESI);

Use of EU Digital Identity Wallets and electronic
signatures for identification with Smart Contracts

Juan-Carloz Cruellas Ibarz (4), Luigi Liquori (1,2,3), Scott Cadzow (8), Michal Tabor (6), Nick Pope (7), Xun Xiao (9), Paolo Cornaglia (5), Davide Porro (5), Tooba Faisal (10), Steffen Schwalm (11), Andrea Caccia (12)

1 Centre Inria d'UCA

2 KAIROS - Logical Time for Formal Embedded System Design

3 UCA - Université Côte d'Azur

4 UPC - Politechnic University of Catalonia

5 - InfoCert, Italy

6 - Obserwatorium.biz, Poland

7 - SSA, UK

8 - CCC, UK

9 - Huawei, Germany

10 - Nokia, France

11 - MSG group, Germany

12 - Studio Caccia, Italy

Executive summary

The present document specifies the use of EU Digital Identity Wallets, and advanced or qualified electronic signatures and seals conforming to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 [i.3], amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, (referred as eIDAS hereinafter in the present document). The advanced or qualified electronic signatures and seals in the present document are implemented using digital signatures. The present document supports identification of natural or legal persons playing relevant roles in different stages of the life cycle of Smart Contracts, taking into account the needs for identification highlighted in ETSI TR 119 540 [i.1].

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J-C Cruellas Ibarz, L. Liquori, S. Cadzow, N. Pope, M. Tabor, X. Xiao, P. Cornaglia, D. Porro, T. Faisal, S. Schwalm, A. Caccia. ETSI Technical Standard TS 119542. Use of EU Digital Identity Wallets and electronic signatures for identification with Smart Contracts, final, 24 pages, November 2025.

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https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/119500_119599/119542/01.01.01_60/ts_119542v010101p.pdf

Informative references

References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee their long-term validity.

The following referenced documents may be useful in implementing an ETSI deliverable or add to the reader's understanding, but are not required for conformance to the present document.

[i.1] ETSI TR 119 540: "Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures (ESI); Standardisation requirements for Smart Contracts based on electronic ledgers".

[i.2] ISO/IEC 18013-5:2021: "Personal identification — ISO-compliant driving licence — Part 5:
Mobile driving licence (mDL) application".

[i.3] Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing the European Digital Identity Framework.

[i.4] ETSI TS 119 472-2: "Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures (ESI); Profiles for Electronic Attestation of Attributes; Part 2: Profiles for EAA/PID Presentations to Relying Party".

[i.5] Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2977 of 28 November 2024 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards person identification data and electronic attestations of attributes issued to European Digital Identity Wallets.