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This is like the third attempt by the EU to break encryption in a short timespan. This is getting ridiculous.



This isn't an attempt to break encryption. Can you show how it is? The EFF has just posted a load of FUD in this article - governments already control CAs, so giving them another one wouldn't give them any new interception capabilities. Actually eIDAS would give them less interception capability, since the browser would have to display some icon saying it's an eIDAS certificate, which it doesn't do for other CAs.

Their claims center around "the current language is imprecise" and I'm having a really hard time seeing why that's a problem for a bill that hasn't even finished being written yet.




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