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> In order to use an eSignature, you need to have an eID (electronic ID) card from an EU member state. Some people in the EU do not have them. This is false. e
by detaro 5y ago
> In order to use an eSignature, you need to have an eID (electronic ID) card from an EU member state. Some people in the EU do not have them.
This is false. eIDs are a common way of doing it, since they already have a process for verifying identity obviously and are smartcards matching the required security level, but not required, you can just get a generic matching smartcard loaded with the cert.
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoIn practice, countries recognize only eID cards they produced and signed themselves (well, ordered from Gemalto, Giesecke and Devrient or IDEMIA). Now, once the use of eID cards expands, all these use cases will require software. So far, countries do on their own. Belgium writes its own software, Estonia as well. The point is that most of that software could be reused. So far, only open source parts are reused, like opensc.
- diracistheproph 5y agoThe Estonian e-signature software is fairly well written, open source and easily extensible to other countries eIDs. Latvian and Lithuanian are already supported.