Godot's Slides On The Belgian EID Card And Its Architecture

These slides (currently 15 megabytes. Before Adobe Acrobat decided to convert itself from version 6.0 into 6.0.1, the same presentation used to be less than 4 megabytes (I already reinstalled 6.0, but the pdf generation engine does no longer seem to be able to produce the smaller pdf files)) give an overview of the
- Belpic project milestones (the European Directive 1999/93/EC, approval of basic concepts, contract assignments, first eID cards issued during and after the pilot phase, etc.)
- eID card issuing process
- eID card content (key pairs, certificates, identity data, etc.)
- eID card chip details (processor, operating system, etc.)
- certificate hierarchy and details on the individual certificates (citizen, CA, government, etc.)
- certificate revocation lists
- typical use scenarios to generate signatures, verify signatures, key pair properties, certificate (chain) validation procedures, etc.
  Note the difference between the decryption and signing scenarios!
- issues with respect to long-term validity of digital signatures relying on certificates which may have been revoked at some moment
- European Directive 1999/93/EC itself (intention, definition, requirements, recommendations)