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NooneAtAll3yesterday at 11:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

what's eIDAS?


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whizzteryesterday at 11:41 PM

EU digital identity law to make inter-EU signatures (And authentication) work.

As an example, an EU citizen working in Sweden should be able to submit Swedish tax forms whilst living here by using a digital identity from the originating nation.

There are also some standards in place like ETSI standardized extensions to PDF signatures so that you can verify that a signature inside the PDF was actually signed by a specific physical person (the standard is there but it's not fully used throughout the EU yet due to some legacies).

Implementation is a bit of a mess still but things are converging.

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ezfeyesterday at 11:34 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services

nickslaughter02today at 2:34 PM

A mistake.