Certifying the future; synchronizing EUDI wallets and quantum-readiness

The European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI wallet) represents one of the largest shifts in digital governance, aiming to give citizens secure control over personal credentials across member states. However, deploying high-assurance trust architectures while preparing for post-quantum cryptography presents major technical hurdles for hardware vendors, service providers, and certification bodies. In this episode of Shielded: The Last Line of Cyber Defense, host Johannes Lintzen sits down with Wei Yuan, lab manager and director of operations at Applus+ Laboratories. Wei outlines the structural trade-offs between local security elements and remote HSM deployments, the challenge of building crypto agility into hardware, and why the European Commission timeline leaves zero room for delay.