> Electronic signatures should have a lower level of trust than those performed in front of notaries and other officials. Exactly. The level of trust of the el

> Electronic signatures should have a lower level of trust than those performed in front of notaries and other officials. Exactly. The level of trust of the electronic signatures should be as low as it can be, as computer security is really, really hard, especially outside of military settings: it should only be used to prevent the flood of login attempts and to allow to get or submit some less critical information, not to be legally equivalent to notarized signatures. Unfortunately some administrations swallow the propaganda of the companies selling the electronic signatures and promote them as "solving everything" then they are "surprised" that the citizenship is skeptical. And we know how unreliable "Certificate Authorities" are, and how hard it is even for big and very rich companies to maintain their certificates. It's not that the cryptography behind the signature is the problem: it's everything around that is the problem that needs a lot of care.