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Openness strengthens security
Following Kerckhoffs's principle, a system must remain secure when everything about it is public except the key. What cannot survive inspection was never secure. It was only hidden.
ALBeID OÜ · Registered in Estonia
Openness is not a threat to security. It is what makes security real.
ALBeID OÜ is an Estonian company working in digital trust services. It implements digital identity the way the European rules intend it: in the open, where every part of the work except the private key can be checked, audited, confirmed or rejected by anyone.
The company
- Name
- ALBeID OÜ
- Legal form
- Osaühing (OÜ), Estonian private limited company
- Registry code
- 16874333, Estonian e-Business Register
- Founded
- 6 December 2023, through Estonian e-Residency
- Founder and owner
- Armando Vrushi
- Field
- Data processing, data management, data mediation and related activities
- Business aim
- Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS
What ALBeID does
ALBeID works on digital trust services: identity, credentials and signatures that people can rely on because they can verify them, not because they are asked to. It follows the European eIDAS regulation and the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework to the letter.
Its long-term business aim is to become a Qualified Trust Service Provider. Until then, its work is to show in practice what a correctly built digital service looks like, and how much control over it a citizen should expect to hold.
What ALBeID stands for
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Trust is earned by verification
Nothing is accepted because it is declared. Code, rules and results are published so that anyone, critics included, can check whether a claim matches reality.
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Rules that serve the citizen
The European rules on digital identity are inspired by human rights, citizen sovereignty and transparency. ALBeID implements them in that spirit, not as instruments of concentrated control.
The project
Not a bundle of technologies. A shift in civic perception.
Res Publica: Integritas, the Republic of Integrity, is the civic project at the heart of ALBeID's work. Digital signatures, encryption and verifiable records are widely used to earn public trust. On their own, they are not enough. The project aims at a shift in how citizens relate to power: away from believing what is declared, towards verifying what is real.
A living witness
The project is meant to stand as daily, practical evidence of one principle: a system that anyone can inspect is harder to abuse, not easier to attack. Its credibility is measured by the ability of an opponent to check it without being able to manipulate it.