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My ID card has a chip in it and can be used to sign documents. Why not support that?


Because their biggest markets do not? And it's a just announced, beta feature!


Hmm, I just looked and it turns out not to be a requirement of all EU ID cards.


Why make a proper real legal signature when you can just copy paste a scanned .jpg file at the end of a document (or do something equally useless)?


copy-paste a png of you typing your name recording your IP...

...vs cryptographic proof someone had access to your ID card


> ...vs cryptographic proof someone had access to your ID card

Which isn't what we are discussing here, this was the point… :)




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