On 12/18/2025 6:06 PM, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote:
Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that my research consisted of reading
a few pages on the Internet, notably these: 1.) https://helpx.adobe.com/
legal/esignatures/regulations/european-union.html; this one: https://
eidas.ec.europa.eu/efda/trust-services/browse/eidas/tls; 2.) this one:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/DIGITAL/
pages/467109076/What+is+the+legislation+-+eSignature; and this one:
https://gregbur.me/2022/04/28/deep-dive-digitally-signing-pdfs-with-
okular/.
With these things one can just relax for a while. After all, we first
have to see if the EU manages to set up the infrastructure itself
without big tech. After all it needs trust.
The dutch digi-id system was outsourced to some commercial entity that
then was bought by some investor (UK, those often have a bad reputation
here) that wo sels to another investor (USA, even worse reputation, esp
because that gov can ask demands to everything). For me that basically
removes trust in that system that we're supposed to use so we have to
see how that plays out as much communication (country, province, city,
public ornagizations) depend on it.
It's very easy nowadays to end up in conspiracy landscapes so a
signature system needs to be done right from the start. Adobe should not
even be involved in that. It's good that at least it is done as 'europe'
for folk like me.
So we'll see hwo it goes. The best we can do is just handle it
technically but usage / validity is then not something we have to worry
about. It's after all just adding objects to a pdf (plus some
encryption). I get the impression that there is less hurry than these
pointed to documents suggest so no need to update overnight (during the
xmas days).
Hans
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