spot-on. it helps to recall that ETSI, despite being some opaque standards org is made of people[1] like you and me (many not in Europe) who helped draft this

spot-on. it helps to recall that ETSI, despite being some opaque standards org is made of people[1] like you and me (many not in Europe) who helped draft this abomination of a standard. This is disguised as digital identity but the interest groups are mostly law-enforcement, and the same crowd that is pushing "chatcontrol", and "regulating cryptography". This "secret list" of experts is here[1]. And here is Tanja Lange's (repeated[2]) warning on this proposal: >> I'm contacting you @LalicVedran & @JerkovicRomana about eIDEAS - as a cryptographer & concerned citizen. As said in eidas-open-letter.org/ & I presented in detail at the ENISA Article 19 working group it doesn't suit an open society to mandate trust. https://hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/QWACs.pdf https://hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/QWACs.pdf When Kazachstan[3][4] made people install a certificate in their citizen's browsers we (rightly) called them "Banana Republic". Look who is the Banana Republic now. [1] Patrick Breyer on Twitter Nov 6th (in German) https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1721558594129219912 https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1721558594129219912 [2] Tanja Lange on Twitter Nov 5th https://nitter.cz/hyperelliptic/status/1721215011799142791 https://nitter.cz/hyperelliptic/status/1721215011799142791 [3] Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1 (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843 [4] MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472179