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by Muromec 547 days ago
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:...