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Commfides: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Commfides Norge AS is a Norwegian IT security company that has issued certificates and provided qualified trust services since 2005 and is listed on the EU Trusted List. Its offering includes eSegl/QSeal business certificates for digital reporting to Norwegian public services such as Altinn, Maskinporten and Elhub, employee e-ID, a personal e-ID for public services through ID-porten, electronic signatures at all eIDAS levels through Signeringsporten, SSL/TLS certificates, and CertPub, a service for encrypted business-to-business messaging based on PEPPOL. The services are delivered by the provider itself.

Its headquarters are at Fornebuveien 1 in Lysaker, Norway. Norway is part of the EEA but not of the EU. Commfides describes itself as part of Norwegian critical infrastructure. Its website does not say who owns the company or where the services are hosted, and it describes no open-source or self-hosted edition. Organisations with data-residency or ownership requirements should ask the vendor for written confirmation.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026
Headquarters
NO (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
NOVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
GlobalConnect-AS2116 - GLOBALCONNECT AS, NO (NO)Technically measured
Category
E-signatures
Type
Product
Website
commfides.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Commfides

The European alternatives to Commfides come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Commfides

Commfides is headquartered in NO, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Commfides scores best on data residency.

Commfides is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Commfides together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Commfides?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Commfides include A-Trust, Agrello and Assently. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Commfides?

Our list of EU alternatives to Commfides is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Commfides GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Commfides is headquartered in NO (EFTA) and hosts data in NO. That makes Commfides an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in E-signatures

E-signatures: Electronic signatures, trust services, eIDAS services. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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