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LuxTrust: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LuxTrust is a qualified trust service provider and certification authority based in Capellen, Luxembourg. It provides digital identities for private individuals, qualified electronic signatures for businesses and public bodies, and the LuxTrust Mobile app, which replaced the physical token that was deactivated at the end of 2024. Its professional offers include the COSI electronic signature service, customer identification and authentication, electronic archiving, time-stamping, SSL certificates and a managed data-encryption service. The encryption service is run together with POST Luxembourg and Thales, with LuxTrust hosting and operating the solution.

The company's website names POST Luxembourg as its shareholder and describes the shareholding as entirely European, with no single majority owner outside the EU. It presents itself as a qualified trust service provider listed on the EU trusted list and as an operator of vital importance under national rules. For the encryption service, the company states that the keys remain under the customer's sole control, but the website does not name the data-centre location. For a European organisation this is a Luxembourg provider under EU trust-service regulation.

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 12, 2026
Headquarters
LU (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
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Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LuxTrust

The European alternatives to LuxTrust come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 LuxTrust

LuxTrust is headquartered in LU 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 LuxTrust scores best on data residency.

LuxTrust 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 LuxTrust 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 LuxTrust?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to LuxTrust?

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

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

LuxTrust is headquartered in LU (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes LuxTrust 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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Compliance evidence

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