The federal government is working on a number of measures that are intended to make the e-perso more user-friendly and to help the online identification function achieve a breakthrough. Citizens should be able to reset a forgotten PIN online in the future. In addition, problems with use in company networks are to be resolved, as the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced on Tuesday at the request of heise online.

So far, you have to personally in the Call in to the Bürgeramt if you have forgotten your six-digit PIN and want to reset it. The problem probably occurs often in practice, as most citizens received their ID years ago and have never used the online function since then.

Activation code by registered mail Now the federal government wants to set up a web service that can be used to remotely reset the PIN by the Bundesdruckerei. You should then receive an activation code by registered mail with which you can reactivate the online identification function and set a new PIN. The Federal Ministry of the Interior declared that the identity card law must also be changed. The Ministry did not answer the question when the offer should be available.

Advertising campaign for smartphone ID In addition, the federal government wants to solve technical problems with the use of E-Perso in company networks: Up to now it has been possible that online identification fails because firewall systems attempt to establish the encrypted connection between identification and eID -Server break up and analyze. A solution is now being worked on “so that the firewall systems do not break the connection,” explained the internal department without going into any further detail.

The measures are intended to help the E-Perso – ten years after its introduction – still make the breakthrough. The federal government is also planning an advertising campaign for the E-Perso. This should 2021 start when users can transfer the ID data to their smartphone in order to identify themselves with the mobile phone alone. The federal government announced the smartphone ID a few months ago, but so far only Samsung has participated in the project.

In the The Federal Ministry of the Interior sees the E-Perso on the rise – because of Corona.

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Change of residence from 2021 also digitally Additional batch for the E-Perso new use cases are to bring, which are developed within the framework of the online access law. A particularly important project is the change of residence: It should probably also be possible digitally from 2021 on, at least as a pilot project in individual municipalities.

When registering digitally, citizens should no longer have to submit a certificate from the landlord. Instead, a code should be sent to the new address by post. “Only after entering the code will the re-registration be transferred to the register of residents”, explained the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

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