ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the FutureTrust project and invites further stakeholders to actively participate in contributing to the development of future trust services for trustworthy global transactions. There are currently over 160 trust service providers across Europe, which issue qualified certificates and/or qualified time stamps. Hence, the “eIDAS ecosystem” with respect to these basic services is fairly well developed. On the other hand, the provision of qualified trust services for the validation and preservation of electronic signatures and seals as well as for registered delivery and the cross-border recognition of electronic identification schemes have been recently introduced with the eIDAS regulation. The FutureTrust project will extend the existing European Trust Service Status List infrastructure towards a “Global Trust List”, develop a comprehensive Open Source Validation Service as well as a scalable Preservation Service for electronic signatures and seals.
