
If you’ve tried to scan a certificate with your phone, you’ve probably seen something like this:

Though the EU has been working on a public certificate standard, which it appears to have been based on. To my mild disappointment, I wasn’t able to find much information about the Norwegian COVID-19 certificate. There was a pretty big public push for openness after the government decided to roll out a closed source contact tracing application that collected detailed GPS data, instead of relying on the more privacy friendly Bluetooth-based technology developed by Google and Apple. In Norway, much of the “COVID infrastructure” was released as open source via the national health authority’s GitHub account. I recently received my own certificate, and was curious about the data it contained, as well as the supporting infrastructure around certificate verification.Įlectronic and printed COVID-19 certificates In Europe, most of these appear to be in the form of a QR code.

Many countries are in the process of rolling out digital COVID-19 certificates.
PRIVATE .NET DEOBFUSCATOR CODE
Update: FHI released the code for the mobile application and backend API a few hours after this post went public.
