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D-Trust: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

D-Trust is a German trust service provider within the Bundesdruckerei Group, based in Berlin. It has been listed with the Bundesnetzagentur under eIDAS since 2016. D-Trust provides digital certificates and electronic signatures: cards for qualified signatures and seals, TLS/SSL certificates for websites, electronic health professional cards (eHBA), practice and institution cards (SMC-B), and security modules (TSE) for electronic cash registers, in hardware and cloud versions. It also offers identification and seal services and data trustee platforms. The services are delivered by the provider itself.

D-Trust was founded in Berlin in 1998 and has been wholly owned by Bundesdruckerei since 2010, a group the website describes as government-owned. It therefore falls under German and EU law and has no foreign parent company. The website does not say where data is hosted, and no open-source or self-hosted edition is described.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
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 2, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	bdr - Bundesdruckerei GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	E-signatures
Type	Product
Website	d-trust.net ↗

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 D-Trust

The European alternatives to D-Trust 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 D-Trust

D-Trust is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so D-Trust scores best on data residency.

D-Trust 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 D-Trust 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 D-Trust?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to D-Trust 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 D-Trust?

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

Is D-Trust GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

D-Trust is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes D-Trust an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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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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