EU Digital COVID Certificate
Also known as:
DCC
Green Pass
COVID QR
The EU standard for digitally signed health certificates encoded in QR codes, using CBOR data format and COSE (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption) for offline verification. The system demonstrated large-scale QR-based credential verification.
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