critical assetsmeans assets within or in relation to a wallet unit of such extraordinary importance that where their availability, confidentiality or integrity are compromised, this would have a very serious, debilitating effect on the ability to rely on the wallet unit;
embedded disclosure policymeans a set of rules, embedded in an electronic attestation of attributes by its provider, that indicates the conditions that a wallet-relying party has to meet to access the electronic attestation of attributes;
provider of person identification datameans a natural or legal person responsible for issuing and revoking the person identification data and ensuring that the person identification data of a user is cryptographically bound to a wallet unit;
provider of wallet-relying party access certificatesmeans a natural or legal person mandated by a Member State to issue relying party access certificates to wallet-relying parties registered in that Member State.
wallet cryptographic operationmeans a cryptographic mechanism necessary in the context of authentication of the wallet user and the issuance or presentation of person identification data or electronic attestations of attributes;
wallet instancemeans the application installed and configured on a wallet user’s device or environment, which is part of a wallet unit, and that the wallet user uses to interact with the wallet unit;
wallet providermeans a natural or legal person who provides wallet solutions;
wallet secure cryptographic applicationmeans an application that manages critical assets by being linked to and using the cryptographic and non-cryptographic functions provided by the wallet secure cryptographic device;
wallet secure cryptographic devicemeans a tamper-resistant device that provides an environment that is linked to and used by the wallet secure cryptographic application to protect critical assets and provide cryptographic functions for the secure execution of critical operations;
wallet solutionmeans a combination of software, hardware, services, settings, and configurations, including wallet instances, one or more wallet secure cryptographic applications and one or more wallet secure cryptographic devices;
wallet unitmeans a unique configuration of a wallet solution that includes wallet instances, wallet secure cryptographic applications and wallet secure cryptographic devices provided by a wallet provider to an individual wallet user;
wallet unit attestationmeans a data object that describes the components of the wallet unit or allows authentication and validation of those components;
wallet usermeans a user who is in control of the wallet unit;
wallet-relying partymeans a relying party that intends to rely upon wallet units for the provision of public or private services by means of digital interaction;
wallet-relying party access certificatemeans a certificate for electronic seals or signatures authenticating and validating the wallet-relying party issued by a provider of wallet-relying party access certificates;