Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by semi-extrinsic 545 days ago
I tried reading how to use DocuSign with eIDAS for a Qualified signature, which is the legal requirement in the EU. And it is such a mess that the DocuSign documentation [1] links to a page at passkeys.dev [2] which explicitly states in the first paragraph that it should not be linked to from user-facing documentation...

[1] https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&...

[2] https://passkeys.dev/device-support/

1 comments

Where does the requirement come from? eIDAS regulation [0] establishes different signature profiles, from which qualified is the strongest, but doesn't say you can't use advanced or the basic electronic "draw here" kind of signature with no cryptography.

Sure, some national laws may require qualified with long term storage and implement it as part of closed document system, but people use less-than-qualified documents all the time.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...