Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored

Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored

ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator... True, false? Who cares, just accept it anyway


Security flaws have been found in the European Union's electronic identity system that could have been exploited by miscreants to impersonate member states' citizens online.


The programming blunders were buried in the five-year-old eIDAS – that's electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services – that was designed to act as a secure bridge between all the various bureaucracies and ID systems of the 28 countries that make up the world’s largest trading bloc.


Essentially, you can use eIDAS to sign documents, pay taxes, apply for college courses, open bank accounts, access public services, and so on, in one EU country using a digital identity issued ..

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