The beID integration was built to operate alongside the platform’s standard document-based KYC flow. Businesses can now configure the platform to route Belgian users to the .beID digital verification path automatically and take advantage of its full ID scan replacement capability. .beID works like a card authentication service, meaning the user inserts their physical smart card into a card reader and enters their PIN. The chip embedded in the card then signs a cryptographic challenge using its certificates, returning verified identity attributes directly from the government-issued credential. This process eliminates the image capture and optical character recognition steps that document-based verification relies on, along with the image quality failures and lighting issues that accompany them. The system operates under the PKCS#11 and OIDC standards and carries eIDAS Level of Assurance High certification, the highest category in the European identity assurance framework. During every single verification, .beID scans the user’s given name, family name, and date of birth as deterministic attributes, which are delivered directly from chip-level certificates and not extracted from a photographed surface. Source: https://tech.einnews.com/amp/pr_news/922964487/idenfy-has-connected-belgium-s-beid-to-its-identity-verification-platform